Xavier Grand
CTO & Chief Architect at Algolia
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolXavier Grand is a veteran engineering leader and founding engineer at Algolia with 11 years of experience evolving the search engine from a 5-person startup to a global platform of 750+ employees. Now CTO & Chief Architect, he has deep hands-on expertise in C++ search internals, distributed systems, performance engineering and features like multi-cluster management, delete-by-query, A/B testing and secure API keys. He has repeatedly blended technical leadership and people management—scaling teams, running on-call training, and maintaining code quality while shipping core infrastructure. Based in Paris, Xavier also teaches and mentors (EPITA, Pollen), bringing a pragmatic educator’s mindset to complex system design and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at EPITAEngineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
French, English
Github Skills (86)
geo-search10
go-api10
api-client10
faceted-search10
autocomplete10
php-api10
javascript-api10
javascript10
algolia10
api10
geolocation10
geocoder10
geo10
laravel9
database9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Nagriar/elasticsearch-cloud-aws
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
awsaws-cloudelasticsearch
Nagriar/mongo-connector
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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