Alexandre Quinche

PROFILE

React/Next.js Tech Lead, 27 years of experience. I lead 4 front-end developers across the Louvre Hotels Group ecosystem: 7 brands, 1 000+ mini-sites, ~1 700 hotels served. Career: developer (1999-2008), Release Manager (SG CIB, Sarenza, ENGIE, 2008-2019), return to code in 2019. Daily workflow with Claude Code + Superpowers, DeepL for Drupal i18n. Stack: React, TypeScript, Next.js 15, Tailwind, Drupal. Release Manager process rigour + front-end leadership + applied AI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• React / Next.js Tech Lead · Applied AI Consulting (conversational chatbot POC)

  Louvre-Hôtels Group · La Défense · November 2019 — present

  • ▸Designed and shipped a conversational AI chatbot POC embedded into the existing stack: Claude Sonnet 4.6 + 12 tools + 7 actions + 15 UI bubbles, search → checkout → Adyen 3DS, brand-gated and critical-path-safe (14,366 tests still pass, 0 regression on other brands, +457 dedicated chatbot tests)
  • ▸Front-end lead on the Louvre Hotels Group ecosystem: 7 brands + ~10 sub-brands, 5 brand sites + corporate + loyalty, 1 000+ hotel mini-sites, ~1 700 hotels served
  • ▸Mentoring 4 front-end developers; cross-team collaboration with 4 back-end engineers, 1 PO, communications / SEO-SEA / marketing teams
  • ▸AI-boosted workflow at the client: Claude Code + Superpowers daily (everything except code reviews), DeepL for Drupal i18n across the group's sites

  Skills: REACT / TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, Drupal, PHP Symfony, MySQL, Azure DevOps, GIT, Anthropic Claude SDK, Apollo GraphQL, SSE streaming, Claude Code, Superpowers, DeepL (Drupal i18n)

• Developer / Release Manager (release train)

  Société Générale CIB · La Défense · December 2017 — October 2019

  • ▸Coordinated 9 teams (~40 people) on a business-critical release train
  • ▸Cadence: 1 patch release/week + 1 major release/month; ~95% incident-free in production
  • ▸Designed and shipped a release-pilot intranet: clear reduction in coordination time, smoother cross-team process

  Skills: ASP.Net, Bootstrap, MySQL, JIRA, Service Now

• Release Manager

  SARENZA · Paris · November 2016 — December 2017

  • ▸Release tooling migration TFS 2013 → 2017 (ticketing + release tracking)
  • ▸Release cadence moved from "1 uncertain release every 2 months" to "1 calm release per week" — 8× frequency increase
  • ▸Operational maintenance of the 4 environments: dev / QA / preprod / prod

  Skills: TFS 2017, Redmine, VSTS, CentOS, Grafana, Nagios

• Operational Management / Release Manager

  Société Générale CIB · La Défense · July 2013 — August 2016

  • ▸Release cadence transformed: from "1 release/month, painful" to "1 release/week + 1 major/month, smooth"
  • ▸Continuous test tracking, ongoing documentation, richer tickets and reinforced traceability
  • ▸Operational management of an international team (India + Paris); real-time Kibana board for production monitoring; group CMRM passport validation on a 40-person Kanban team

  Skills: TFS 2015, JIRA, KIBANA, ElasticSearch

• QA Release & Change Manager

  ENGIE · La Défense · July 2008 — May 2013

  • ▸Direct management of a 4-person QA team
  • ▸Quality oversight of ~50 applications + infrastructure; ~98% incident-free releases
  • ▸Ran 3 CABs/month (2 patch + 1 major), set up KPI/KRI indicators

  Skills: TFS 2013, C#, SSIS, TALEND

• Developer

  ENGIE, Natixis AM, SSII Winowex · September 1999 — May 2008

  Skills: C#, VB5/VB6, Powerbuilder, Lotus Script, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, SSIS, TFS

TRAINING

• 2018SAFe 4 Agilist training — AgilBee
• 2012ITIL Foundation v3 certification — ITIL/077541 — Learning Tree
• 2011Communication skills: collaborating to deliver results — Learning Tree
• 2010Business analyst support: scoping projects effectively — Learning Tree
• 2008Advanced training on Reporting Services 2005 — Microsoft
• +5 additional Learning Tree training sessions available on request