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Rémy-Christophe Schermesser

A new iteration of our engineering career path at Alan

A few years ago, we shared our engineering career path with the outside world. We thought it was interesting for our candidates and other…

8 min readMar 29, 2024

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A new iteration of our engineering career path at Alan

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Shion Honda

Benchmarking Large Language Models

Judging the quality of large language models (LLMs) is an unsolved challenge in AI. This is why there are so many LLM benchmarks — such as…

5 min readApr 18, 2024

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Benchmarking Large Language Models

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Julien Femia

Inside our engineering organisation: Collaboration, Innovation, and Remote Work

It’s been a while since we published our last blog post about our engineering organisation. We thought it was time to refresh it…

6 min readApr 15, 2024

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Inside our engineering organisation: Collaboration, Innovation, and Remote Work

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Damien "dams" Krotkine

Claim Engine: Saving 60 k$/year by avoiding unnecessary recompute

💼 Executive Summary

7 min readApr 5, 2024

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Claim Engine: Saving 60 k$/year by avoiding unnecessary recompute

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Othman Moumni Abdou

Engineering challenges at Alan in 2024

Co-authored by Hugo Venturini

9 min readMar 19, 2024

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Engineering challenges at Alan in 2024

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Tim Petricola

Towards a universal Design System

At Alan, we build a diverse range of products on web and mobile platforms. All our products need a cohesive identity and user experience to…

6 min readMar 12, 2024

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Towards a universal Design System

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Tony Sanchez

Automated Code Migrations: Our Journey from Unittest to Pytest

Don’t migrate your code, code your migrations

3 min readMar 8, 2024

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Automated Code Migrations: Our Journey from Unittest to Pytest

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Jean-Baptiste Barth

Building debug tooling for engineers and support teams alike

At Alan, our core mission is to simplify the lives of our members. However, simplifying the external experience often means embracing…

5 min readMar 6, 2024

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Building debug tooling for engineers and support teams alike

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Jean-Baptiste Barth

Simplifying Python workflows with sitecustomize.py

Alan’s backend is written in Python, using Flask under the hood. We actually manage a few applications within the same codebase, and…

4 min readNov 20, 2023

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Simplifying Python workflows with sitecustomize.py

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Xavier Seignard

Our journey from React Native to Expo for mobile app development at Alan 🛤️

At Alan, we’ve always been committed to providing the best user experience possible, and this extends to our own engineers, through what we…

7 min readNov 14, 2023

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A meme representing a gaussian curve, on left an Expo beginner, on middle a developper struggling with a large heterogeneous tooling, on right a seasoned Expo developper disguised as a Starwars Jedi.

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Pierre-Yves Caneill
Software Engineer @ Alan
Charles Gorintin
Cofounder and CTO at @alan_assurance. Formerly data scientist @facebook, @instagram and @twitter.
Rémy-Christophe Schermesser
Software Engineer @alan

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