Alexis Benoist is a seasoned software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading backend teams and driving delivery across fast-growing startups and established product organizations. He combines hands-on expertise in backend architecture, testing, CI/CD and database design with a servant-leader approach, having managed up to 11 developers and scaled teams via hiring strategies and measurable quality improvements. A former coach who ran 300+ workshops and mentored teams on TDD, clean code and test strategy, he is comfortable both shipping core features and shaping organization-wide engineering practices. His open-source contributions include backend work on eralchemy, showing an eye for tooling and data-model integrations with SQLAlchemy. Based in Paris, he pairs engineering rigor with facilitation skills—often translating technical initiatives into cross-team projects and measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
INTERNATIONAL MOZAIK
Engineer's degree Generalist engineer majoring in Information Technology and entrepreneurship, Engineer's degree Generalist engineer majoring in Information Technology and entrepreneurship at CentraleSupélec
Computer Science, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Contributions:3 releases, 242 commits, 33 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexis contributed to the development of the `eralchemy/eralchemy` project, focused on generating Entity Relation Diagrams. They added comments to the code, moved code to a package structure and implemented test features. The user also made changes to the `main.py` and `sqla.py` files, indicating they worked on the core functionality of the project and integrating it with SQLAlchemy. These commits suggest a focus on the backend logic and integration aspects of the tool.
Contributions:1 release, 76 commits, 35 pushes in 1 month
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