Alexandre Wilhelm
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Wilhelm is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems, currently at GitHub after leadership roles at Endor Labs and Uber. He specializes in Go, gRPC/Protobuf, monorepos and Bazel, and has been a hands-on owner of critical RPC platforms serving hundreds of services at Uber. As a founding engineer at Endor Labs he designed the monorepo architecture, CI/CD, telemetry and an agentic model orchestration platform that underpins multiple AI-driven products. He contributes to open source—most notably as a core team member of Cappuccino and former owner of YARPC—while also improving UX in client-side projects and test automation across languages. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines deep low-latency systems expertise with front-end and tooling experience, and has a track record of growing engineering teams and mentoring senior and junior engineers. An observer of simplicity and performance, he often drives migrations and reliability roadmaps that reduce operational surface area while increasing throughput.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Degree, Computer Science, Engineering Degree, Computer Science at UTBMComputer Science, Computer Science at Linköping UniversityGUT, Services and Communication Networks, GUT, Services and Communication Networks at Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I)
Github Skills (21)
objective-c10
javascript10
theming10
testing10
css10
cucumber10
test-framework10
objcective-c10
ui-design10
ruby10
uid10
parallel-testing10
front-end-development10
obj10
parallel-tests10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cappuccino/cappuccino
Jan 2013 - Apr 2019
Web Application Framework in JavaScript and Objective-J
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:782 commits, 174 PRs, 202 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre's commits focus on enhancing the Aristo 2 theme for the Cappuccino web application framework, primarily centered around UI component development. They implemented styling and theming for various UI elements like buttons, text fields, and segmented controls, ensuring a consistent visual style. The user was also involved in theming the CPDatePicker, including textual and graphical elements, as well as fixing styling inconsistencies in several components, indicating a focus on improving the visual experience and consistency of the framework's UI elements.
javascript
ArchipelProject/Archipel
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
XMPP Based Orchestrator
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 comment in 9 days
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on fixing and improving the user interface of the ArchipelClient. They addressed issues related to toolbar refresh, VM selection within the outline view, and image size adjustments across the application. The contributions included code modifications across multiple modules and views within the client-side codebase, ensuring a more robust and functional user experience for the XMPP-based orchestrator. These changes directly addressed user-reported bugs and usability issues.
xmpp
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