Presentation
From French government hacker to founder, CTO, and blockchain engineer.
I was recruited by the French government at 20yo through international CTF competition and worked there full time while completing my engineering degree. Offensive security was the right starting point: it exposed me to a wide range of architectures and taught me to reason across the OSI layers, from high-level interfaces and application logic down through cryptography, networking, low-level protocol work, and hardware security.
That range made blockchain a natural place to work, because the engineering only really makes sense if you can think across protocol design, infrastructure, execution, and market structure at the same time. Today I focus on Ethereum and Solana distributed systems, especially cross-chain infrastructure, trading systems, and market design around prop AMMs and CLOB-style execution, where performance and cost optimisation are central. Right now that means working on opinion-market infrastructure and transaction-landing reliability for a company I work with, treating execution quality as a core product problem rather than an afterthought.
I like zero-to-one work. I have scaled engineering from 0 to 10 engineers, taken products and teams from idea to operation, led due diligence across multiple investors, and helped raise more than $13M from pre-seed through seed with a number of considered S-tier investors. Doing that well is less about any single trait than about combining product sense, engineering depth, speed, hiring, team alignment, and execution under constraint, while keeping maintainability, engineering quality, and security intact.
Rust and Go are the languages I use most, including work at the L1 and validator-client layers on both Ethereum and Solana. A lot of that work sits close to node operators, in critical environments where private-key handling, enclave design, failure domains, performance tuning, timing games, and revenue optimisation are first-order concerns. I have modified base clients to improve APY and operator returns, and introduced new features required by the ecosystems I was building in. Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible are part of my daily infrastructure work, and I am usually at my best on the complex technical problems that other teams would rather not own.
Outside work, I enjoy learning languages: French, English, and Spanish at C1, Danish at B2, and Korean in progress. I like the nuance of it, and the way it changes how you listen, write, and think.
I have always liked engineering beyond software and infrastructure. 3D printing, CNC woodworking, and industrial engineering more broadly keep me close to materials, fabrication, and the practical side of turning an idea into something real. I also follow geopolitics closely because it shapes markets, teams, and the financial systems I work close to in blockchain.
I care about the work environment too: writing, tooling, terminals, and keyboards, and about iterating on my own habits so the way I learn and work keeps improving over time. I am naturally curious, and I have always found that life makes more sense when I keep learning.
