Bitcoin proved it. Now productized.

I never went to high school. Not because I couldn't do it — it just wasn't built for how I learn, so I walked out at 15 and never looked back. Instead I worked. Gardener, odd jobs, small ventures. Every role taught me something real about shipping, customers, and finishing what you start.

Then I found code. Taught myself through Google, YouTube, and relentless trial and error — no bootcamp, no mentor, just a laptop and stubbornness. It was the first thing that actually fit. I just needed a place that worked the same way I did.

42 was the first place that clicked. No teachers. No lectures. No grades. Just problems, peers, and the hard stuff — C, algorithms, networking, systems. You learn by breaking things and rebuilding them with the person next to you.

I thrived there, and they kept me on — invited me to join the 42 Network dev team, building the tools students and staff use every day. 42 doesn't teach you to code. It teaches you how to learn to learn. More on what 42 actually is →

Alongside the code, I picked up a Design Thinker certificate at 42 — because good software is a design problem before it's an engineering one.

When the opportunity came to help launch 42 in Lisbon, I didn't hesitate. I was hired from France as part of the founding dev team — building the systems, tools, and infrastructure from day one.

I learned that great products aren't just great code — they're the right systems, the right culture, and the right people aligned around a vision that actually makes sense.

By 2025 AI stopped being a buzzword — it became inevitable. I'd seen this movie before with crypto: the ones who build seriously while everyone else is still posting threads end up defining the space. So I moved early.

Now I work from Ericeira. A surf town on the Atlantic where the pace is slower but the thinking is clearer. I didn't take the usual path to get here. I'm not planning to take the usual one from here either. I just build.