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ABOUT ME
Who am I and what I do.
Who am I
I'm Alexis Tacnet, a Software engineer, SRE and Designer based in
Paris, France. I currently work at Mistral AI as a Software Engineer.
Software Engineer
I've been programming since I'm 10 and I'm currently 29 years old. I
started mainly with Web: HTML, CSS and a bit of early days JS, and
then went with C and C++ for Desktop applications. I then switched to
Android applications development in Java and published my first app to
the Play Store (Android Market) at 15. During my studies, I
learned Python and experimented with Data Science / Web. I then went
fullspeed towards Web with Python backend and JS front-end: Flask +
Angular, Django + Vue, ... Nowadays, I'm mostly programming in
Typescript.
SRE
As a teenager I discovered Linux with Ubuntu, and then ArchLinux.
After a few failed installations and bad formatting of LUKS encrypted
LVM partitions, I felt in love with self-hosting and managing unix
servers. In my engineer school, I was the president of a student union
managing the internet network on the campus. We were managing routers,
fibers, ethernet cables and all the associated software: DHCP, DNS,
Web hosting,... It was a really great experience that allowed me to
work in startups to manage their VPS and soon clouds. After
graduating, I cofounded a startup developing a Kubernetes manager to
create and manage on-demand environments for web services.
Designer
I've always been passionate about design: from classical art to modern
web design for Saas applications. I did not study in this field, and I
was always frustrated that web developers need to rely on designers to
make good products. After a lot of trial in game development on
Inkscape when I was younger, I focused on new tools like Figma. I've
always tried to make both brand assets and product design for my
ideas. Currently, I'm not what I would be a good designer, but I try
to improve to be as autonomous as possible to launch my ideas.
Contact me
You can contact me by sending an email to alexistacnet@gmail.com, I usually respond in a few days.
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