D-CREATIONS Daniel Madac

Work

Prototyping and FabLab

As an employee

Roles I am looking for

  • FabLab manager
  • Prototyping / R&D technician
  • Technical workshop lead
Targeted CV (PDF)

As a freelancer

Freelance offer

3D printing, laser cutting, CNC files and small series; training for your team.

Contact me

Related projects

Status: Case study

Prototypes from the FabLab

Fire-retardant museum models in PETG and carbon fibre, eyewear parts, laser-cut boards and aluminium panels for start-ups and makers.

Stack: Fusion 360, Bambu Lab, Trotec, CNC

Prototyping collaborations

  • DFL Eyewear · Dec 2025

    3D-printed tools for an eyewear workshop: a depth-control gauge, a tracer part and bench accessories, in several fast iterations.

    Fusion 360, Bambu Lab

  • KABLAX · Nov-Dec 2025

    Three rounds of prototypes for a product idea: cylinders and a base plate, printed, tested and redesigned between each round.

    Fusion 360, Bambu Lab (3MF)

  • MIHALY · Dec 2025

    A board designed in Fusion 360 and cut on the CNC (6 mm contours, 3 mm bores), with a laser-cut "EarthWorm" pattern; delivered on 10 Dec 2025.

    Fusion 360 CAM, CNC, Trotec laser

  • IUMTEK · Nov 2025

    A 900 × 630 × 3 mm aluminium-composite (Dibond) front panel, drawn and prepared for cutting.

    DXF, CNC

Related 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. 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.