About

Experience

1. Aug 2025 - today

   Founder, digital studio: media, websites, AI automation

   D-CREATIONS · Montpellier / remote

   • Started in 2025 with photo and video production near Paris; now helps small businesses get found, save time with AI automation and earn good reviews.
   • Shipped CineBuddy to the French App Store (Swift, Supabase); built Bouclier, an ad blocker for Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Android.
   • Built native Mac apps: Phoenix Display (second screen over HEVC, 5K), YouTube Zeus (open source, local AI, MCP server), Atlas Terminal.
   • Built a private AI team: a WhatsApp agent that takes tasks, plans them and hands them to coding agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini, local Qwen models), with usage limits and human approval.
   • Built my own AI engineering toolkit: 2,400+ agent skills with a search server (MCP), 18 Claude Code plugins, 12 skills open-sourced on GitHub.

2. Jan 2025 - Jun 2026

   FabLab Manager, Photonic FabLab 503

   Institut d'Optique Graduate School · Palaiseau (Paris-Saclay)

   • Ran the lab and its machines: Bambu Lab 3D printers (PLA, PLA-CF, PETG HF, TPU, PAHT-CF), Trotec laser, wood and aluminium CNC, photo studio.
   • Coached 2 cohorts of engineering students (FIE) and 10 hosted start-ups from idea to working prototype.
   • Designed and made prototypes in Fusion 360: eyewear parts, laser-cut boards, aluminium panels, fire-retardant museum models (PETG + carbon fibre).
   • Wrote the lab documentation and safety rules, managed stock and consumables, built the lab database in Notion.
   • Ran workshops, trainings and events to bring the FabLab into the 503's courses and start-up programmes.
   • Built free tools for the lab and published them as open source (fablab-tools on GitHub).

   CDI de projet-missions; joined Sept 2024 on a short contract

   The contract was tied to the 503 innovation project and ended in June 2026 when the university stopped funding it.

3. Feb - Apr 2024

   Restaurant assistant (extra)

   Hotel Mercure Massy Gare TGV · Massy, France

   • Evening shifts in the hotel restaurant during busy periods.

4. 2019 - 2020

   Operator, RU 1000 track renewal train

   Swietelsky · Schwechat (Vienna) and sites across Austria

   • Worked in several positions on the rail processing line of the RU 1000 train; team of 30 across 7 technical roles; machines up to 5 tonnes; safety first.

5. Apr 2016 - Aug 2023

   Waiter, then manager

   La Dolce Vita, café and artisan ice-cream shop (Hauptplatz) · Knittelfeld, Austria

   • Started as a waiter and became the manager after about 5 seasons; managed a seasonal team of 10 from different countries.
   • Ran purchasing, stock, production, pricing, staff planning, communication and online visibility.
   • Brought the shop into the digital age: IT system, shared tools, automated routine tasks, maintained the equipment.

   Seasonal: back every season 2016-2023 (closed in winter)

6. 2018 - 2025

   Freelance web designer and IT

   Independent / Recycledwelt · Remote, Europe

   • Websites for small businesses and craftsmen (Wix): forms, workflows, online payments.
   • Installed home network security systems and gave IT advice.
   • Ran Recycledwelt, a small shop for upcycled furniture and my own large-format photo prints.

7. 2017 - today

   Short-let host

   My parents' apartment · Spielberg, Austria

   • Booking.com and Airbnb listings, guests, pricing and cleaning; average rating 4.8/5.

8. 2014 - 2016

   Earlier jobs

   • Waiter: Mrast petrol station, Zeltweg (2015-2016) and Admiral Sportwetten, Knittelfeld (2014-2015) · Logistics, OPC Overnight, Birmingham (2014) · Renovation, Rome.