Axel Angel
Lead Developer at InsightSphere
Ecublens, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAxel Angel is a Lead Developer and data engineering specialist with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-ready pipelines and AI-powered APIs from Switzerland. He has led efforts to process and clean mixed real-time and batch data at scale—supporting architectures with Kafka, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch—and has shipped ML and NLP systems that handle tens of millions of daily items. At DemandScience and Finity AI he combined research-driven work (LLM memory extensions, graph DB exploration) with pragmatic software engineering to deliver reliable, automatable services. A contributor to the Clojure ElasticSearch client elastisch, he has a hands-on knack for fixing subtle API and stability issues in open-source infrastructure. Trained at EPFL, Axel pairs experimental curiosity with an efficiency-focused mindset, aiming to bring the smartest, most automatable technologies into real applications.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at EPFL
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
clojure10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
apidoc10
clojure-cli10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
back-end-development9
functional-programming9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
clojurewerkz/elastisch
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
A minimalistic Clojure client for ElasticSearch, supports both HTTP and native transports
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Axel primarily contributed to the `clojurewerkz/elastisch` repository by fixing and enhancing the scroll functionality of the ElasticSearch client. They addressed issues related to the preservation and correct handling of the `:scroll` argument within the `scroll-seq` function. The user implemented scroll-clear functionality and fixed the URL used for clearing scrolls. These changes suggest a focus on improving the efficiency, stability, and correctness of the client's interaction with the ElasticSearch scroll API.
clojureminimalistictypesenseelasticsearch
axel-angel/master-project
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:455 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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