Alexis Deschamps
Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexis Deschamps is a Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems at scale, currently contributing at Databricks. He has hands-on expertise in crash ingestion and analysis pipelines from meaningful open-source work on Mozilla’s Socorro project, where he fixed API bugs, improved crash analytics, and introduced front-end testing with Jest and Enzyme. His background includes internships across notable organizations (Mozilla, Wealthsimple, Statistics Canada) that shaped a pragmatic, production-focused engineering approach. A University of Ottawa software engineering graduate with strong academics, Alexis bridges data-heavy backend work and practical front-end testing improvements. He brings a track record of improving maintainability and observability in complex systems and a preference for clean, reusable refactors that reduce technical debt. Colleagues would describe him as a thoughtful contributor who leverages open-source collaboration to drive real-world product reliability.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, GPA : 8.3/10 (OMSAS conversion: 3.6/4), Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, GPA : 8.3/10 (OMSAS conversion: 3.6/4) at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (16)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
debug10
web-development10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
python10
apidoc10
django10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
react9
jestjs9
javascript9
css3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-services/socorro
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Socorro is the Mozilla crash ingestion pipeline. It accepts and processes Breakpad-style crash reports. It provides analysis tools.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 38 PRs, 317 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexis primarily contributed to the Mozilla Socorro crash ingestion pipeline by addressing bugs and implementing new features related to crash report processing and analysis. They focused on fixing issues within the API, including handling invalid crash IDs and preserving URL parameters after login. The user also improved the signature summary page with startup crash stats and refactored the topcrashers functionality for better code maintainability and reusability. Furthermore, the user added Jest and Enzyme for front-end testing of React components.
reportspipelineingestion-pipelineanalysis-toolsbreakpad
AlexisDeschamps/portfolio-rebalancer
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Investment portfolio rebalancing web app
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
investment-portfoliorebalancinginvestmentportfolio-rebalancingfinance
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