About me

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Freelancer, Developer, and Unix/Linux System Administrator (devOps). Problem-solving and process improvement mentality, Automation zealot. Good IT knowledge.

Open to code developement, DevOps, web-scraping & automation proposals.

Began computer science as a self learner back in early 2000’s, after doing game programming when I was a teenager.

Worked as a Linux system administrator for several years, then graduated from CNAM Paris university in 2011: Professional Bachelor’s Degree (Bac+3) in IT, development… (licence professionnelle ACSID: Analyse et Conception des Systèmes d’Information et de Décision).

Been using GNU/Linux on a daily basis for the past 23 years and I am quite fluent in using GNU tools, as well as text/Regex/HTML/XML/JSON/YAML/TOML/data processing/web scraping (with pptr, Playwright and NodeJS) or Python and selenium/requests/lxml, Javascript, XPath, Bash, Perl, Python, Awk, VM(ware) automation, Vagrant, Docker, Packer and still learning devOps tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS)

Started prompt engineering in 2022, and in 2025, started to code LLM tasks, LLM agents, RAG.

Developed web scraping programs with Javascript, Python, Perl, shell since 18 years.

Solved some tricky web scraping problems: captchas (OCR), bank virtual keyboards, Javascript based web sites. Intensive use of XPath.

Fan of functional programming and chained methods in JS/Perl/Ruby/Python.

Believe that clear and efficient code is always better. (Re)think my work everyday to ship the most clean/reliable/efficient/maintainable code as possible.

Also a free* aficionado in all forms. Engaged in free software in different ways/projects/contributions.

To finish, being an experienced kitesurfer has taught me self control, patience and adaptability.