Réda Alaoui
Head Of Software Engineering (Hands-On) at Open Source
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolRéda Alaoui is a hands-on Head of Software Engineering based in Paris with 13 years of experience leading and scaling backend-first teams at Cosium. He combines technical leadership with active coding—contributing to projects like Keycloak, Hibernate, Axon Framework and Chromium—and maintains several open-source tools (including a popular git-code-format Maven plugin and a Jenkins Sonar-Gerrit plugin). His deep expertise in distributed systems, authentication, and message-driven architectures is reflected in nuanced contributions such as implementing IMAP SORT support in Greenmail and improving Axon’s aggregate testing and Spring integration. Known for shipping pragmatic, well-tested backend features (for example adding “mark as unread” across Rocket.Chat's full stack), he balances product needs with long-term code health. Unusually for an engineering leader, he still authors and maintains bite-sized developer utilities and experimental projects like catgenie, signaling a continual curiosity for tooling and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma in sciences, Mathematics, High school diploma in sciences, Mathematics at Lycée LyauteyMaster's degree, Computer Science (MIAGE), Master's degree, Computer Science (MIAGE) at Université Paris-SaclayPreparatory classes for engineering schools, Mathematics, Physics (PSI*), Preparatory classes for engineering schools, Mathematics, Physics (PSI*) at Lycée Jean-Baptiste Say
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
keycloak10
authorizations10
javascript10
object-mapping10
coffeescript10
jira10
cqrs10
imap10
apidoc10
java-persistence-api10
databases10
oid10
user-authentication10
authentication10
atlassian10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
hibernate/hibernate-orm
May 2015 - Aug 2022
Idiomatic persistence for Java and relational databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 13 commits, 24 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Réda contributed to the Hibernate ORM project, focusing on core object-relational mapping functionality. Their commits addressed issues related to EntityGraph, including applying it to subqueries and improving its functionality for generating attribute field names. They also made fixes and improvements to the scroll method, and other related features. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the Hibernate framework and its internal workings.
javarelational-databaseshibernateormjpa
jenkinsci/jira-plugin
Nov 2012 - Oct 2016
Jenkins jira plugin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Réda primarily contributed to the Jira plugin's functionality by implementing features and resolving issues related to Jira integration. Their work included adding functionality to release versions, enabling CLI parameter submission for JiraVersionParameterDefinition and then reverting it, and adding the ability to abort Jira version releases in case of build failure. The user also refactored code by renaming the Releaser class to VersionReleaser, and enhanced logging to include stack traces for debugging.
jenkinsjira-pluginatlassianjira
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