I make invisible things visible. I’m a French lead dev / CTO who builds language-model systems for a living, currently as a freelancer; in Singapore I built a quantum optics simulator that thousands of students learn from. I studied philosophy and theology for four years and sometimes lecture at universities. I trained as a jeweller at the École Boulle and I release songs as Small Warm Things. On the mathematical side I maintain a balanced ternary research laboratory and contribute to the OEIS. I’m also an Ironman triathlete, and I enjoy complexity and new challenges. I work in French and English equally, and get by in Spanish.

Feel free to contact me!

💼 Experience

  • Full-stack developer and data scientist, freelance, Paris, since 2016. See Code and AI.
  • Co-founder and head of development, COVID3D-APHP, Paris, March to December 2020. COVID3D-APHP federated the 3D design and printing initiatives against Covid-19 in the Paris region. With Roman Khonsari, Guillaume Tassin and Bone3D, we opened the first professional hospital 3D-printing farm, at Hôpital Cochin, within a week, to answer the equipment shortage. I coded covid3d.org, which published the open-source models of protective and medical equipment designed for the crisis, and co-founded emergency.io to share them with medics and fablabs worldwide. Le Parisien covered the farm.
  • Lead developer, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore, August to November 2019, at the invitation of Artur Ekert: the open-source quantum optics simulator that became Virtual Lab. See Quantum.
  • Co-founder, CTO and lead developer, Eyes On Talents, Paris, 2011 to 2013: a platform that brought the creative elite together with the great luxury houses.

🧙 Other interests

The main threads have their own pages: AI, Quantum, Math, Code and Art. What does not fit there:

  • Philosophy and theology, studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris, the background behind my talks on AI ethics
  • Competitive programming: Project Euler and Rosalind
  • Cybersecurity: CTFs and bug bounty
  • 3D modelling, 3D printing and CNC machining
  • Generative art

🌏 NGOs & associations

  • Co-founder and CTO of Action Aide Asie, since 2007: a hospital NGO that builds and equips hospitals, trains medical staff and funds operations for children and young adults in Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
  • Co-founder and CTO of Action Aide Afrique, since 2014: the same work in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Morocco, Niger and Rwanda
  • CTO of the Amis des Malades de l’Hôpital Cochin, a medical charity active in France, since 2004
  • Member of Mensa France, member 13396

🏃 Sports

  • Ironman triathlon (3.8 km swim, 180 km bike, 42 km run) - finisher, Nice 2023, in 15 hours
  • Ironman 70.3 (1.9 km swim, 90 km bike, 21 km run) - finisher, Aix-en-Provence 2022
  • Marathon - Paris Marathon, 2005
  • Thai boxing - French champion 2007 - amateur middleweight, assault - FFKMDA
  • Sailboat racing - silver medal 2019 - Grand Classique - Voiles de Saint-Tropez - crew, on the aft manoeuvres
  • Chess - Arena Candidate Master, FIDE Online Arena title (FIDE ID 351104660)

🏆 Awards, medals, TV, etc.

  • Webby Awards 2023, the “Oscars of the Internet”: nominee in the Science category with the Quantum Flytrap team for Virtual Quantum Lab, alongside NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and OpenAI; covered by Quantum Zeitgeist.
  • Étoile Civique, bronze, 2013, for more than ten years of charitable and humanitarian work around the world.
  • France 3 interview about my 3D printing farm at Hôpital Cochin at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.