I'm Yanis, a software engineer based in Toulon, France. I've always been passionate about animals, and that's how I came to code, through biology: after starting a degree in the field, I moved to INSA Lyon to study computer science, then spent a year at Sanofi building software for vaccine research. That's where I figured out what I like building: backend work and tools that feel finished, that answer a real need rather than existing for their own sake.
During engineering school I also discovered Japan. I started learning the language, moved there for an exchange semester, and after graduating went back to dive deeper into the culture and push my Japanese further, shipping personal projects along the way.
Outside of code, as you'd guess from the animal thing, I'm a wildlife photographer. You'll find some of my shots further down the page. I'm also a big fan of everything strategy-related, from video games to board games, and even team sports like volleyball.
Computer Science and Data, with a bioinformatics specialization.
Six-month university exchange in the Master of System Informatics.
A local-first research IDE built with Tauri and React, pairing your Zotero library with a LaTeX/code editor and a private AI assistant. It does citation-grounded RAG over your papers, with clickable citations that jump to and highlight the exact source passage in the PDF.
An educational combat-analysis tool for Age of Empires IV. Compare any two units side by side with a full battle simulation. A companion Twitch extension lets viewers run these matchups live during streams, right on the channel overlay.
A browser extension paired with a local Python backend that interrupts endless social-media scrolling with Japanese flashcard overlays. It uses a spaced-repetition system (SM-2) to schedule reviews.
