Xavier Hocquet
Engineering Lead at Findigs, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Hocquet is an engineering lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building and unifying complex web platforms, currently based in New York. He blends servant leadership with deep technical chops—shipping full-stack features, designing auth systems (SAML/OAuth/SSO), and leading successful post-M&A team consolidations. At Maxwell he grew and scaled teams and products from greenfield to revenue-generating integrations, and recently stepped into an engineering lead role at Findigs. A lifelong coder who started at 12, he contributes to open-source projects like the beets music manager (improving lyrics providers) and brings practical DevOps and observability improvements that cut error rates dramatically. Known for leading by example, he prioritizes developer engagement and pragmatic solutions that let teams do their best work. Outside of engineering he’s an avid traveler and food enthusiast, which informs his collaborative and curious approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Game Design and Development, Bachelor’s Degree, Game Design and Development at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at The American School in Japan
French, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
music-information-retrieval10
beautifulsoup10
python10
api9
apim9
testing8
cli7
musicbrainz6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily contributed to the beets music library manager by implementing features related to lyrics retrieval. Their work involved adding a new lyrics provider (Tekstowo), fixing issues with existing providers (Genius), and improving the overall functionality of the lyrics plugin. They also made improvements to the documentation and added changelog entries to reflect their changes. The changes show a focus on improving the integration with different lyric sources and addressing bugs.
musicbrainzmusicpythonmusic-librarycli
xhocquet/groceryguru-server
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:220 commits, 161 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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