Alex Vernet
Summary
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SeniorAlessandro Vernet is a seasoned software leader and CTO/founder of Orbeon, steering the open-source Orbeon Forms platform since 1999. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with strategic product leadership, contributing across the UI, backend, Form Builder, and Form Runner components. He actively influences web standards via W3C Working Groups on XForms and the XML Processing Model (XProc). Before Orbeon, he built web application tools at Symantec and earned an MS in Computer Science from EPFL, bringing solid academic rigor to production systems. Based in San Carlos, California, he has two decades of experience delivering scalable web-form solutions and advancing Ajax, XML, and Web 2.0 technologies. He is the author of Professional XML and Professional Web 2.0 Programming, reflecting his commitment to sharing knowledge with the developer community.
21 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
orbeon/orbeon-forms
Aug 2004 - Jan 2023
Orbeon Forms is an open source web forms solution. It includes an XForms engine, the Form Builder web-based form editor, and the Form Runner runtime.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5955 commits, 12 PRs, 1898 pushes in 18 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily involve updates to the Orbeon Forms web forms solution. Their contributions include implementing new features, fixing issues, and refactoring code within the form builder and form runner components. The user demonstrates proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, as evidenced by changes to both UI elements and the underlying logic of the web forms solution.
form-builderweb-formsxformsruntimeweb-based
orbeon/tagsoup
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 10 months
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