Journey

The non-linear path from first lines of code to doing this full-time.

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Jun 2024 — now

"Entrepreneur"

No more student excuse, now it actually has to work. In practice that means Odoo consulting to pay the bills, and building our own products with interesting people the rest of the time. The quotes around "entrepreneur" stay until at least one of them takes off.

Projects started in this period

ML
MentionLab AI visibility and agentic search readiness platform for brands. Track how AI engines mention, perceive and interact with your business.
JL
JSON Lens Interactive JSON explorer with graph visualization, multi-format support, and schema inference. Works offline as a PWA.
OD
O'Dashboard A BI tool for Odoo. Build queries, visualize data, create dashboards, no SQL required.
Px
Life of a Pixel A living canvas of one million pixels, each with its own personality. Watch them, or adopt one if it looks lonely.
EPH
2021 — 2024

EPHEC — eBusiness

I enrolled at EPHEC in parallel to s19 for two reasons. First, being a student for three more years bought me time to launch my own thing. Employment was never the plan. By the end of first year I registered as étudiant-indépendant (self-employed student) and started freelancing. Second, I wanted a real business foundation. Tech for tech's sake doesn't interest me. I want to build things that actually make sense beyond the code.

In the end it gave me all that and more. This is where I met Liory and Jean, with whom I work today. I have a lot of respect for what EPHEC offers when you're willing to go beyond what's asked. They give a lot of freedom when they sense you actually care.

Started here

PP
PassPass A Belgian event ticketing platform. Event creation, ticket sales, QR check-in, e-invoicing, and more.
s19
Sep 2020 — 2023

s19 (42 Network)

The Belgian branch of Ecole 42. No teachers, no classes, just projects, peer-learning, and an unhealthy amount of C. Passed the "Piscine" in September 2020 and loved every second of it. Three years of deep, hands-on systems programming.

Got there motivated by Martin, who made it sound exactly as good as it turned out to be.

UCL
2019 — 2020

UCLouvain — Civil Engineering

Started civil engineering. Then COVID hit, lectures moved online, and I spent all my newfound free time coding instead of studying. Realized pretty quickly that writing software was the thing that actually made me want to get up in the morning. Dropped out to join s19.

Started here

SD
SmsDispatcher Automated SMS sending solution for businesses using mobile plans to cut costs.
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2013 — 2019

Secondary school

Around 2017, started tinkering with Python scripts, basic HTML/CSS, and CodinGame puzzles. No formal CS education, just curiosity and too much screen time. The foundation of everything that came after.