# Alexandre Wilhelm > Product and System Builder - Distributed Systems Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexandrewilhelm Passionate about building and scaling distributed systems. Big fan of Golang, gRPC, and Protobuf. Enthusiast of monorepos, Bazel, and microservice architectures, with a focus on simplicity and performance. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ GitHub Jan 2026 – Present ### Founding Engineer @ Endor Labs Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, California, United States As a founding engineer, I contributed to building the company from the ground up—shaping both the technology and the team: • Partnered with the CTO to design and implement the core foundation of the Endor platform, including monorepo architecture, microservices, deployments, telemetry, and CI/CD pipelines. Tech stack: Bazel, gRPC, Go, MongoDB, GitHub Actions. • Designed and built Endor’s first agentic platform, including model orchestration, tool integration, and observability systems—now powering multiple AI-driven product features. • Proposed, designed, and delivered multiple high-impact product capabilities (Endor Patch, SCA, Security-Review). • Collaborated with the CTO and VP of Engineering to grow the engineering team from 1 to ~70 within 4 years. • Served as Principal Architect supporting the VP of Engineering in defining technical direction, architecture standards, and engineering best practices. • Led development of key platform and product features mentoring junior and senior engineers. • Participated in multiple client calls to provide technical guidance on the solution’s architecture, capabilities, and best practices for adoption. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Network Platform (RPC) Owner and tech lead of RPC frameworks (gRPC/Protobuf, TChannel/Thrift, YARPC, YAB, Circuit Breaker, Retry etc...) used at Uber. - Owner and tech leader of the open source project YARPC (https://github.com/yarpc/yarpc-go). Core libraries used by Uber for its microservice infrastructure. Serving 500+ services in production. - Define RPC Roadmaps and OKRs. (gRPC Migration, Reliability Libraries, RPC Libraries, Support). - Tech lead of a team of 8+ Junior/Senior Engineers. - Mentor and coach 3 Junior/Senior Engineers. ### Senior Software Engineering @ Uber Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Région de la baie de San Francisco, États-Unis Core services (User Platform) Owner and tech lead of multiple high scale services in production (1M+ req/s used by 500+ clients) serving Core Trip Flow (Uber Mobility/Freight/Eat). Founding engineer on the rebuilt of a high scale service from Python (Populous) to GoLang (C2.0). Owner of multiple tracks: - Led end-to-end delivery of C2.0 authorization (100M+ authz/s with 1ms p99.95 latency). - Led end-to-end effort to make C2.0 ready (build/test strategy) and efficient (1M+ req/s, 60ms p99.95 latency) for production. - Led end-to-end integration effort of DOMA into C2.0 (https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/) - Built Caching foundation for C2.0. - Reguraly OnCall (24/24 7d/7d) and always eager to improve services healths (optimization, observability, issues etc...). ### Member of the Technical Staff @ Aporeto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 As the first engineer at Aporeto (https://www.aporeto.com - cloud native security), I had the chance to work on multiple aspects of the Aporeto product including: Developing the ReST API and backend foundations (golang, mongodb, microservices, kubernetes, docker, opentracing) Developing the foundations of the functional testing framework (golang, cucumber, concourseci, aws, kubernetes, docker, vagrant) (technical lead of a team of 5 people) Developing the foundations of the webapp (ReactJS) Developing a graph library (d3js) Contributing to the open source project Trireme (https://github.com/aporeto-inc/trireme) ### Software Engineer @ Nuage Networks Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View , États-Unis Contributed to Nuage Networks project (SDN - revolutionary tool for datacenter). Contributed to the design of the ReST API of Nuage Networks. Contributed to the development of the VSD (website application) on Cappuccino (Objective-j) Developed the OpenStreetMapKit for Cappuccino Developed a drawing library for Cappuccino (Statistics Graphs, Trees, Graphs etc.). Developed application demos for iPhone/iPad. Contributed to the development of the testing framework Cucapp (https://github.com/cappuccino/cucapp) Developed a documentation generator based on our UI testing frameworks Contributed to the design of testing frameworks for the ReST API. Designed and developed small Flask ReST applications. ### Software Engineer @ IGBMC Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Contributed to the Mouse project (software to manage transgenic mouse). Studied of researcher's needs and constraints. Developed of Mouse on Cappuccino (Objective-j). Developed of WebServices REST (Framework : Flask- Python). ### Software Engineer (Intern) @ IGBMC Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Contributed to the Mouse project (software to manage transgenic mouse). Studied of researcher's needs and constraints. Developed of Mouse on Cappuccino (Objective-j). Developed of WebServices REST (Framework : Flask- Python). ### Software developer (Intern) @ ACTIMAGE Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Contribution to the Actelin project (evolutionary tool to help diabetes people). Development of WebServices REST (Framework : TurboGears 2). Development of plugins and widgets on Windows Mobile 6.5. Conception and development of Actelin on iPhone. ### Software developer (Intern) @ Micro Data Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Contribution to the developpement of one application (VOXY) in J2EE to allow to manage a telephony server Asterisk (VoIP). Creation of parts "Statistics and Server status" and "Directory". Realization of specifications of the project and graphic design. ## Education ### Engineering Degree in Computer Science UTBM ### Computer Science Linköping University ### GUT in Services and Communication Networks Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alwilhelm --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexandrewilhelm JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexandrewilhelm/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12