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  • SignalMapA mobile coverage map of Réunion and Mayotte: click anywhere and see the signal you would get from about 3,100 antennas.Projects
  • ZappyA network survival game in three programs: a C++ server, a 3D viewer and AI players, with LLM role-playing agents as a bonus.Projects
  • MaskGeneratorA small neural network that finds the road lines in a camera image, and a 2D raycast that turns them into lidar-like distances to drive a car.Projects
  • CockerA prototype platform to design an app as a graph of services and deploy it on Kubernetes: sandbox to try it, production to expose it.Projects
  • RaytracerA C++ raytracer where everything (shapes, materials, lights, output) is a plugin, sped up with a BVH, with a live preview window.Projects
  • RoboCarA small real car that drives itself around a track: a camera, a lidar-like view of the road lines, and a model that learned from human driving.Projects
  • CVRIETwo machine-learning studies using only scikit-learn: classifying chest X-rays, and grouping patient testimonies into symptom clusters with no labels.Projects
  • MyTeamsA Teams-like chat in Rust: a multi-client server, a command-line client, a text protocol written as an RFC, and data that survives restarts.Projects
  • ArcadeA retro game console in C++ where games and screens are plug-in libraries: swap the game or the graphics (terminal, SDL, SFML) while it runs.Projects
  • Masked DeliveryA game made in a weekend for Global Game Jam 2026: pick the right mask for each caller, then survive the drive, with penalties that stack up.Projects
  • 42shA Unix shell written in C, tcsh-style: pipes, logic operators, globbing, aliases, variables, line editing and history, checked against Bash.Projects
  • CorewarA virtual machine in C where small programs fight inside a shared memory, with my own warrior and a 3D viewer in the bonus.Projects
  • A-DasHboarDA dashboard of widgets from third-party services, built on JustBetterAuth, an authentication library written from scratch.Projects
  • StoneAnalysisA Python tool that finds the notes in a sound file with a hand-written Fourier transform, and hides secret messages inside the audio.Projects
  • PipetoA security audit of a nuclear-reactor console full of planted vulnerabilities: find them, rank them, patch them and prove the fixes with tests.Projects
  • TardisCleaning SNCF train-delay data, training a model to predict delays, and a Streamlit dashboard. The model barely beat guessing, and the page says so.Projects
  • InterStonarThrow a rock into a simulated universe: planets that attract each other and merge, or shapes it hits, found by stepping with signed distances.Projects
  • SensAIA small chat program for a local AI model that talks to it with plain HTTP, and can force its answers into a JSON shape you define.Projects
  • This portfolioThe site you are on: one set of data, six themes. Each theme is a different way to explore the same work, from a familiar page to a game.Projects
  • Portfolio toysSmall interactive toys from this portfolio: Fourier epicycles, a themed crossword and a bot that walks where you click.Projects
  • snake_pyA contribution to Infamous97440's repository: 2 commits from me.Projects
  • MyTopA clone of the Linux top command in C and ncurses: live CPU, memory, swap and per-process usage read from /proc.Projects
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The tree rings

Lucien Rivière

Experience, education, skills and languages come from LinkedIn, synced .

Software, AI & web developer

Développeur orienté solutions, passionné par la conception de systèmes efficaces, maintenables et adaptés aux contraintes réelles. Autonome, curieux et capable d’apprendre rapidement de nouvelles technologies, j’aime relever des défis techniques, collaborer en équipe et transformer des idées en solutions concrètes.

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How it grew

  1. 202413 skills by the end of it

    • Epitech - L'école de l'excellence informatique · Expert en Technologie de l'Information, Programme Grande École

      Training · 2024 – 2029

    New leaves: 13

    • DevOps
    • Intelligence artificielle (IA)
    • Langages de programmation orientés objets
    • C++
    • C (Programming Language)
    • n8n
    • Rust
    • Linux
    • Gestion d’équipe
    • Docker
    • Bash
    • Git
    • Algorithmes

    Planted: MyTop

  2. 202521 skills by the end of it

    • Développeur Full Stack · Gaïa Groupe

      Aug 2025 – Dec 2025 · Saint-Leu, Reunion

      What it involved
      • Analyse des besoins et contraintes de l'entreprise
      • Développement et déploiement d'une application web autour de la gestion des consommations d'énergie, alimentée par des données d'objets connectés
      • Méthodologie agile
    • Responsable logistique · BDE - Epitech Réunion (volunteering)

      Apr 2025 – now

    New leaves: 8

    • Développement full-stack
    • Python (Programming Language)
    • TypeScript
    • React.js
    • Méthodes agiles
    • Scrum
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • PostgreSQL

    Planted: Cocker, 42sh, Corewar, Pipeto, Tardis

  3. 202624 skills by the end of it

    • Assistant pédagogique · Epitech - L'école de l'excellence informatique

      Feb 2026 – now · Saint-André, La Réunion

      What it involved
      • Accompagnement des élèves de différents cursus dans leurs projets : suivis personalisés, ateliers collectifs
      • Évaluation des projets des étudiants et propositions d'axes d'amélioration

    New leaves: 3

    • Pédagogie
    • Compétences analytiques
    • Revue de code

    Planted: SignalMap, Zappy, MaskGenerator, Raytracer, RoboCar, CVRIE, MyTeams, Arcade, Masked Delivery, A-DasHboarD, StoneAnalysis, InterStonar, SensAI, This portfolio, Portfolio toys

Seeds (no date on record yet)

  • Développement de logiciels
  • Langages de programmation
  • Anglais
  • Haskell
  • Gestion des stocks

Sung in the grove

  • Français Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Anglais Professional working proficiency
  • Créole et pidgin, basés sur le français Native or bilingual proficiency

Walk among the treesMeet who grew it with me

Layered tree · roots, trunk, branches, canopy

Method

How it grows: deep roots first, decoration last. Drag to turn the tree; hover, focus or tap a layer.

Mindset

Curious, calm, always a beginner.

I take things apart to see how they work, and I am comfortable starting without every answer. Failures are data, error messages are a roadmap, and I never know everything, so I get good at finding out.

  • Curiosity
  • Resilience
  • Humility

Thinking

See the whole system.

I go back to first principles, then look at how the parts interact and what they set off second-hand. I trust measurements over habit, and I ask what happens off the happy path: ten clicks, a dropped connection.

  • First principles
  • Systems
  • Edge cases

Method

Constraints first, then trade-offs.

I pin down goals and limits before building, then balance cost, speed and quality, knowing there is no perfect answer. Big problems get cut into small modules, and every shortcut is debt I keep track of.

  • Requirements
  • Trade-offs
  • Modularity

Craft & Ecosystem

Ship small, automate, leave it better.

I prototype early, learn from real use, and chase the root cause rather than the symptom. I automate the repetitive, refactor before I commit, and write for the next person, who is often me, standing on the shoulders of open source.

  • Iterate
  • Automate
  • Empathy

A letter by the fire

Contact

Questions, ideas, or just a hello: pull up a log, my inbox is open.

A guest book on a stump is on its way. Until then, a letter goes straight to me.

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