Alexis Midon
Software Engineer at Apple
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexis Midon is a software engineer with 18 years of experience designing and scaling infrastructure for generative AI and high-performance distributed systems, currently at Apple in Paris. He has a deep background in edge, performance and messaging platforms from senior engineering and management roles at Apple and Airbnb, where he led traffic, performance tooling and built company-wide pub/sub systems. Alexis combines hands-on systems design—Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka, JVM/Ruby performance—and operational expertise in running large clusters with cost and reliability optimizations. He has a strong history of shipping developer-facing tools and libraries, from Kafka-based messaging at Airbnb to platform SDKs and client libraries at C3 AI. Trained in NLP with a Stanford certificate and holding a Master in Computer Science, he blends machine-learning awareness with pragmatic infrastructure engineering. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex distributed requirements into scalable, observable production systems.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Centrale MéditerranéeCertificate of Achievement Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, Certificate of Achievement Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning at Stanford University
English, French
Github Skills (89)
ode10
fire-and-forget10
recall10
kafka10
java10
kafka-consumer9
apache9
mongodb-database9
scala9
mongodb9
apache-kafka9
database8
monitoring8
python8
datadog8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/kafka-statsd-metrics2
Jul 2014 - Feb 2017
Send Kafka Metrics to StatsD.
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
recallkafkametricskafka-metricsstatsd
airbnb/kafkat
Aug 2014 - Nov 2016
KafkaT-ool
Contributions:27 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 3 months
kafka
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