Background

I started coding because someone told me I probably could not make it work. In high school, I had joined a math club late and we were studying optimal strategy for the Nim game. For our final presentation, I proposed building a small program so people could play against it during the demo instead of only seeing the theory. I was told it would be too complicated to finish in time.

I came back the next day with a prototype running on my calculator.

That kind of challenge still motivates me. I like problems that force you to dig into details, understand how systems actually behave, and keep iterating until things finally click.

I originally thought I might work closer to prosthetics or assisted surgery, because I liked the idea of building technology that could directly help people. Through my studies at the ENSIMAG, I realized I genuinely enjoyed the engineering side itself: experimenting, optimizing, and solving complex technical problems.

That path led me to query planning, optimization, and interoperability for analytical database systems, where small details matter and where understanding why a system behaves differently than expected is often half the job.

Outside engineering, I have always liked balancing technical work with creative and human projects. I was part of ENSIMAG's art society, volunteered on projects in Africa and Venezuela, where I spent part of my childhood.