Jules GAY--DONAT
16-year-old computer science enthusiast, with a deep interest in blockchain technology, cryptography, and artificial intelligence.
Experience
Two-week observation internship within the teams at Deezer France.
One-week observation internship at Koumoul.
One-week observation internship at Optic Performance.
Awards
Coup de cœur award for the Silvya project, an AI voice assistant designed to help young people detach from screens
Diplomas
Very high honors with jury congratulations
Digital certification
English level B1+
Projects
High-performance HTTP Load Balancer written entirely in x86_64 NASM Assembly for Linux. Uses epoll and splice for zero-copy forwarding in kernel-space, dynamic hot-reloading, asynchronous health checks, latency-based routing, and support for sticky sessions and X-Forwarded-For.
Private work in progress. A local digital survival kit including a Wikipedia copy with images, a lightweight LLM, and repair tutorials. Designed to run smoothly offline on older hardware.
AI voice assistant designed to help young people detach from screens. Won the 'Coup de cœur' Start-up Toi-Même award. Abandoned due to lack of funding for hardware production.
Implementation of a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) in pure Python. Matrix calculation optimization using NumPy. Backpropagation and activation functions implemented without high-level frameworks.
SaaS platform for photographers to find prospects and deliver photo galleries (derogy.julesgd.dev). Project abandoned due to lack of budget.
Learning & Hobbies
Writings
A look back at my journey, from my first Linux PC at age 5 to my current rig, and why I love (maybe a bit too much) fixing my relatives' computers.
Refusing the assistance of LLMs and agents has become counterproductive. Tomorrow's core skill won't be writing code, but deeply understanding systems.
Why rejecting data centers in the name of ecology could lead to far more dangerous dependencies and foreign interference.