Alexis Mousset
Lead Software Developer at Rudder
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlexis Mousset is a Lead Software Developer based in Paris with 12 years of experience blending systems engineering and full‑stack development at Rudder. He drives platform reliability and developer-facing features while remaining hands‑on across back-end Rust tooling, web interfaces, and front-end UI polish. An active open-source contributor, Alexis has improved widely used projects from the Rust tracing ecosystem and SMTP libraries to the darktable photography app, uniquely straddling low-level tracing and user-facing UX fixes. His background in systems administration and core infrastructure work informs a pragmatic approach to robustness and performance. Known for refactoring tricky core components and adding practical UX touches, he brings both operational discipline and an eye for polished product details.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MPSI - MP*, MPSI - MP* at Lycée Chateaubriand, RennesEngineer’s Degree, Engineer’s Degree at Télécom SudParis
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (37)
rust-lang10
tls1210
tracer10
css10
configuration-management10
user-interface10
logger10
c1110
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
tls1310
networking10
c1710
mtls10
automation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
lettre/lettre
Feb 2014 - Oct 2021
a mailer library for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 77 reviews, 810 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexis primarily worked on the back-end logic of the Rust SMTP library. Their contributions included the initial implementation and refinement of SMTP commands, including their display formatting and parsing. The commits also involved creating an SMTP client with TLS and connection pool capabilities, and then refactoring code to handle the client state and various SMTP-related tasks, such as authentication (PLAIN and LOGIN), and message processing.
rustemailsmtpmailersendmail
cfengine/core
May 2015 - Aug 2021
CFEngine Community
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 87 commits, 53 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexis primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the robustness of the CFEngine core. Their contributions included resolving context update issues in package actions, addressing errors related to action_policy "warn", and correcting networking error handling within file copy operations. The user also worked on enhancing code readability and adding default bodies for all promise types. These contributions aimed to improve the reliability and stability of the CFEngine system.
cfengineconfiguration-managementcautomationinfrastructure-as-code
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