Alexandre Pinhal
I’m Alexandre Pinhal, a Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building complex, data-intensive React applications in high-security defense environments.
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I’m Alexandre Pinhal, a Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer with 5+ years of experience building complex, data-intensive React applications in high-security defense environments. I joined as the founding frontend engineer for a mission-critical operational training platform for the French Air & Space Force, where I owned the frontend architecture and made key technical decisions from the ground up.
My work strongly focuses on interactive data visualization and custom cartography/GIS tooling—building features like drawing, selection, measurement, markers, routing, zones, and multi-layer rendering with smooth performance at scale. I’m comfortable leading end-to-end problem solving with autonomy, mentoring engineers, collaborating with UX, backend, and DevOps, and even extending into Node.js/Flask when needed to keep delivery on track.
- 5 years' experience
- Joined October 2026
Skills· 13
Languages
- FrenchFluent
- EnglishFluent
- Spanish; CastilianAdvanced
- PortugueseAdvanced
Industry experience
- Government
- Software & Internet
- Education
- Professional Services
- Financial Services
Work experience· 4 roles
Founding frontend engineer building a mission-critical operational training platform for the French Air & Space Force. Owned frontend architecture and technical decisions end-to-end with a small high-trust team, covering React/TypeScript architecture, state management, API/data-fetching strategy, and a reusable component library/design system. Designed and implemented a full cartography and spatial-analysis suite in PixiJS/Canvas (rendering, interaction, measurement, markers, routing, zones, zoom/pan, dynamic grids, and multiple coordinate systems). Optimized performance for thousands of missions using tile-based lazy loading, level-of-detail rendering, memoization, and caching. Built data visualization dashboards (Chart.js/Recharts) for near-real-time and static operational insights, plus synchronized complex UIs and automated report exports (PDF/PPTX). Led code reviews, defined standards/SOPs, mentored engineers, and collaborated across UX, backend, DevOps, and operational users; ext
Supported budget tracking and financial reporting; analyzed operational performance and processed financial data while collaborating cross-functionally with finance teams.
Founded and built a mission-critical operational training platform for the French Air & Space Force, growing it into the team’s core product over 5 years. Owned frontend architecture and technical decisions, working within a small team while defining state management, design patterns, code organization, and API/data-fetching integration using React (18/19), TypeScript, Redux/Zustand/Context, and TanStack Query. Designed and implemented a full cartography and spatial-analysis suite in PixiJS/Canvas (drawing, selection, measurement, markers, routing, zones, zoom/pan, layered rendering, dynamic grids, and multiple coordinate systems) on OpenStreetMap and government map data. Optimized performance for thousands of missions using tile-based lazy loading, level-of-detail rendering, memoization, and Canvas/WebGL techniques with caching. Built data-visualization dashboards (Chart.js, Recharts) for static, near-real-time, and real-time insights; also implemented synchronized complex UI system
Education· 6
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