Damien Alexandre
Co-founder And Web Elasticsearch Expert at JoliCode
Montreuil-sur-Mer, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolDamien Alexandre is a seasoned web developer and co-founder of JoliCode with 15 years of experience specializing in PHP/Symfony and Elasticsearch consultancy, audits, and training. He helps teams tame full-text search problems in production — from indexing performance and relevance tuning to rapid on-site “firefighter” interventions that restore search quality quickly. A daily practitioner of Elasticsearch internals (Lucene, shards, scoring, Kibana) and active contributor to key PHP tooling like Elastica and FOSElasticaBundle, he blends deep backend expertise with front-end experience in JavaScript and integration. Based in Hauts-de-France, he focuses on delivering high-quality, open-source-driven solutions and is deliberately not on the market, channeling his energy into client work and mentoring. An often overlooked strength is his ability to translate complex search diagnostics into concrete developer practices that sustainably raise team competence.
15 years of coding experience
DUT Services et réseaux de communication, Étude de la communication et des médias, DUT Services et réseaux de communication, Étude de la communication et des médias at Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux 3)
English, French
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
serializer10
jquery10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
bundle10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
php10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
front-end-development10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
html10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ruflin/Elastica
Apr 2013 - Jun 2019
Elastica is a PHP client for elasticsearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damien focused on enhancing the Elastica library for Elasticsearch, specifically adding features related to multi-searches, and array access for result sets. They added support for keys in multi-searches, improving flexibility. Further contributions included implementing `ArrayAccess` for result sets, allowing for easier result access and customization. They also addressed code style and documentation, and introduced additional tests to cover the added functionalities.
phpelasticaphp-clientelasticsearch
FriendsOfSymfony/FOSElasticaBundle
Nov 2013 - Nov 2015
Elasticsearch PHP integration for your Symfony project using Elastica.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on enhancing the FOS ElasticSearch Bundle by integrating serializer functionalities. This involved resolving merge conflicts, adapting the code to use updated serializer services, and refactoring code to accommodate new features. They also worked on allowing empty or null mappings and refactoring insertMany method to utilize bulk indexing, along with debugging and fixing the object persister constructor. Further contributions included adding cURL display in the web debug toolbar and adding connection information to the logging system.
elasticabundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony-project
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