Alexis Métaireau
Senior Software Engineering, Dangerzone at Freedom of the Press Foundation
Rennes, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolAlexis Métaireau is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building privacy-minded, open source tools and backend services, currently maintaining Dangerzone for journalists and activists at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He combines deep Python backend expertise with full‑stack work in JavaScript/React, contributing to well-known projects like Pelican and scikit-learn (documentation), and improving developer tooling and APIs across Mozilla and other OSS ecosystems. Alexis favors pragmatic, cooperative Free Software practices and has a track record of shipping secure, maintainable code—from real‑time collaboration in uMap to form builders and web service frameworks. Unusually, he also co-founded and ran a craft brewery for several years, bringing hands‑on operational and product experience to engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BTS IRIS, Informatique et Réseaux, BTS IRIS, Informatique et Réseaux at Lycée Technique La baronnerieMaster, informatique, Master, informatique at SUPINFOMsc, Software Engineering, Msc, Software Engineering at Oxford Brookes UniversityBaccalauréat, serie scientifique, Baccalauréat, serie scientifique at Lycée Jean Moulin
French, English
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Github Skills (55)
api-rest10
javascript10
zeromq10
restructuredtext10
python10
json-schema10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
jinja210
testing10
css10
ui-design10
forms10
redux10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
spiral-project/ihatemoney
Mar 2011 - Dec 2022
A simple shared budget manager web application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 112 reviews, 360 commits in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexis primarily contributed to the development of the back-end functionality of the budget manager web application. Their work included adding features like a basic database, defining models, implementing forms, and integrating project management capabilities like authentication. Key additions focused on data storage with the addition of PostgreSQL database support, project management, and the implementation of an API. They also addressed several bug fixes and performed code cleanup.
pythonweb-appflaskweb-applicationweb-manager
Kinto/formbuilder
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Create your own forms and surveys, get your data back.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:224 commits, 136 PRs, 158 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexis contributed to the development of a form builder application using React for the frontend and likely Kinto for the backend. They implemented features such as Redux for state management, the integration of react-jsonschema-form for dynamic form rendering, and the creation of components for form editing, including handling title and description edits. Furthermore, they added functionalities to publish forms, submit form records, and view the submitted records, thereby improving user experience.
reactform-builderredux-formformbuildersurveys
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