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• Florian Vallée
• I'm 32
• Proud father of one son since 2017
• I currently live in Bordeaux (France)
• I've lived in varous places including Angers (FR), Nantes (FR), Paris (FR), London (UK)
• I've seen Geneva, Cardiff, Bristol, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Lisbon, New York, Brussels, Seoul, Osaka, Tokyo

• Embedded software / Linux software engineer, Free software enthusiast
• I'm versatile - Hack me anything
• Currently employed by Fieldbox.ai where I build a data warehousing / data science backend used in various industries. We use Erlang/OTP.
• Previously employed by Delair where I wrote drone middleware for Linux. Had my fair share of C++14 there.
• Before Delair acquired us I used to build embedded linux distributions, applications and bare metal software for Eukrea
• Previously worked at Oberthur technologies on mobile "security" topics, whatever that meant
• Previously worked with Sigma Designs on accelerated media playback, had a great time there with the gang
• I graduated from TELECOM ParisTech (Telecommunications, Embedded systems), then obtained an MSc from Imperial College (London) (Communications / DSP)
• I used to be an angry sysadmin at Rezel

• Here's my failed attempt at a technical blog : it has one fine article.
• I hack around on various stuff, I like learning new programming techniques, mainly out of curiosity. This is not always backed by particular projects.
  My current interest include :
  • Leveling up in Python 3 which is my go-to language these days. I completed the advent of code 2019 in python
  • Trying to make some sense out of modern C++. I definitely gave up on that one. If you've got a choice my personal take is that the only sane decision is NOT to use C++.
  • Although I learned a bit about Rust in the past, I'm currently planning on actually using it. Hopefully it'll become the next major language in my toolbox, next to Python
• I'm always messing with anything Linux

Updated 2020-01-27