I'm part of 42lab.co where we build AI-powered applications for non-technical startup founders — stack is usually Next.js, occasionally a Python backend.
My current side project is in the flavor and perfume industry: Oumamie gives students a proper formulation platform, and PAC Intelligence targets professionals who need regulatory data, I offer API and MCP, and the platform has its own AI chatbot.
I went through the curriculum at 42 Berlin — mostly C and C++. After implementing our own libraries, we built a shell, an HTTP server, and more from scratch. Then I interned at Dassault Systèmes, working on data augmentation and the architecture of CATIA's future AI agent — giving a decades-old codebase its first AI wings.
I occasionally do Web3 projects and win hackathons (ETH, ICP, TON...). I'm drawn to products that use Web3 under the hood but feel invisible to the end user — for me, that's the proof of a technology that has finally grown up.
Cheers, Leo