Alexandre Blanchet
Mentor Python | Upidev Author
I grew up in France in a coastal town. From a very young age, I was interested in computers. Initially, this interest was sparked by the games included with Windows 95 and later during my first internship where I built my first computer. I then pursued an engineering degree in electronics, which allowed me to write my first programs, culminating in a Master’s degree.
Early in my career, I specialized in the Python language. Python has been a constant in my professional life for over 10 years now. In 2018, I moved to London where I worked at companies of various sizes as a Python developer for five years. In parallel, I developed my activity as a Mentor, to which I now dedicate myself full-time.
I currently live in the south of Spain in the province of Cadiz, where I help my international students develop their Python skills remotely.
Interesting facts about me
| ASPerience 2012 – 2015 | I worked in a small team at ASPerience on a new R&D product to create a centralised system for factories. During this journey, I developed my skills in Python, ActiveMQ, Talend, Java, PHP, HTML, and CSS. |
| Nautilux 2016 – 2018 | When I arrived at Nautilux, there were only three of us in the team: our boss, a frontend developer, and myself. This motivated me to upskill faster to offer as much help as possible with anything related to the backend, client migrations, and bug fixing. I also understood why automated tests were necessary to detect and prevent bugs in the client live instances. During those two years, I learnt more about the following technologies: Python, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, data migration, Talend, petl, Ansible, Linux and SSH tunneling. |
| Context Information Security 2018 – 2019 | The company was already well established when I joined. I brought my skills to the team working on the internal CRM based on Django. I added more skills to my belt, including Python, Django, admin customisation, testing, Celery, Flower, dealing with the Microsoft SharePoint API, and bug fixing. |
| Coconut 2019 – 2020 | At Coconut, I had the opportunity to work on the backend team of a mobile application that helps self-employed people manage their incomes and taxes. I had the privilege of integrating a well-known payment solution with our platform. I consolidated my skills in Python, Django Rest Framework, the PayPal API and React. |
| M2A Media 2020 – 2022 | At M2A, I joined the team as a Backend Software Engineer. In my squad, composed of two other people, we created a product that helps TV sports companies record streams sent to television and store them in the cloud, allowing viewers to access video-on-demand content from the streaming platform. I helped the team with AWS Connect, Step functions, Lambda, Flask and Python |