Alix Guillard

Professional experience ^

2021 → date
Senior Front End Engineer at Deltatre (formerly Massive Interactive) Implemented UI components for OTT video service such as TOD. Optimized code quality and front end performance. Integrated with third party systems (authentication, payments, analytics…). Supervised release cycle and maintained CI/CD pipelines. Led a team of 5+ developers.

2018 → 2021
Software Developer at Massive Interactive. Developed new functionalities for the OTT leading service DAZN using Haxe, React, and TypeScript. Supported QA by setting up platforms and solutions on various devices including major TV brands and game consoles.

2012 → 2018
Web Developer at CZ.NIC (czech domain registry) Maintained and redesigned company web front end based on Django. Created microsites for several events like IT Conferences, IETF meetings or products such as mojeId or CSIRT. Conducted SEO audit, introduced responsive design, enhanced usability.

    Prague
       ↑
    Amsterdam

2007 → 2012
Content Webmaster at RIPE NCC (regional Internet registry) Maintained and migrated main website in coordination with technical teams and consultants. Created and maintained mini event sites for conferences. Conducted usability studies, developed social media activities, became involved in various aspects of external communications and public relations.

    Amsterdam
       ↑
     Paris

2002 → 2006
Content Webmaster for AFNIC (french domain registry) Consolidated three original websites into one, conducted the migration plan, developed a CMS for internal needs, designed web applications, responsible for dedicated mini sites (eureg.org, ccNSO, forum).

1999 → 2001
Webmaster for MandrakeSoft (now called Mandriva) Created the corporate website, responsible for the two main websites of the company, integrated other websites into the global communication strategy of the company, managed the translation of sites into eight different languages, in charge of an international Internet team, organised PR activities with foreign countries, recruited and trained a team of non-profit agents from outside the company.

1997 → 2000
Webmaster for various projects and non-profit organisations, defined the Internet communication strategy, trained the relevant organisation staff, and designed two websites, maintained a personal site from 1997.

    Internet
        ↑
    Civil Engineering

1991 → 1997
Civil Engineer Experience in the construction industry and in logistics, responsible for the organisation, general management, planning supervision and cost control of the works, selected teams of sub-contractors, supervised co-workers, responsible for security and good completion of works in respect of the code of practice.

Other activities and side projects ^

2024
Huwindty Created Huwindty a simple 11ty starter project that can act as a full, state of the art, static site with CMS. It uses Eleventy and Sveltia CMS with Tailwind CSS. It handles automatically navigation menu, SEO meta tags and responsive images.

2023
France Eurobilltracker map Developed a web app that allows to identify, count and map all municipalities visited by a given Eurobilltracker player. Made with NextJS with PostgressQL and Leaflet, using official public data.

2017
Accomodation registry Developed a system to collect guest information and format it to share with local authorities. Used PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap, JQuery.

2017
Turris Omnia Prepared presentation of Turris Omnia router during Libre Software Meeting in Saint-Etienne in 2017.

2014
Study on French Voters Abroad Collected data from French voters in Czech republic to show behavioural patterns. Published the repport on an expat media. Drafted a software with PHP and Leaflet to collect data worldwide.

2013 to 2015
Cinema Festival Organiser for The Très Court international film festival in Prague.

2011 to 2012
Website copywriter Wrote a serie of regular articles as Amsterdam 'welcomer' for the touristic blog of the Thalys (Eurostar train service between Paris and Amsterdam).

2010, 2011 and 2013
Conference speaker Wrote and presented papers for RIPE NCC at FRnOG in 2010 and JRES in 2011. Also wrote a paper on Knot DNS for JRES 2013.

2010 and 2012
Cinema Festival Co-organiser Organised, in a team of two, the Very Short Film Festival in the Netherlands, with screenings both in Amsterdam and The Hague.

2006
Coordinator at Paris Linux show Managed liaison between the organizers of a GNU/Linux trade show and non-profit organisations. 50 booth were set up for associations, free software projects on a dedicated area where several conferences and animation took place. A common leaflet was also handed out to all visitors.

2005
Topic Chairman at the Libre Software Meeting in Dijon.

2005
President of Parinux, the Paris-based GNU/Linux user group (130 members) in 2005.

2001 and 2002
Press Relations Introduced Press Relations activities for the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux in 2001 and 2002.

Education ^

2010 Scrum Master certification with in house training at RIPE NCC in Amsterdam

2008 Social Media Marketing degree module at De Montfort University in Leicester with a course delivered at Castle College Nottingham

1999 Licence de concepteur médiatique in University Paris X, equivalent to a BA in Communication with a specialisation in Multimedia

1991 BTS Travaux Publics equivalent to a BA in Civil Engineering

1989 Cambridge first certificate in Paris

1989 Baccalauréat C, equivalent to A-Levels with major in maths and physics

Languages

French mother tongue, fluent in english, advanced czech, basic dutch