biface

Chief Information Officer (CIO) at one of France's leading universities, with international professional experience and active involvement in European higher education and research networks.

Passionate about amateur development and contributing to open-source projects—wherever the code lives—for the joy of creating, improving, and giving visibility to overlooked tools. I use both GitHub and GitLab to collaborate, test pipelines, and experiment with CI/CD workflows, and remain platform-agnostic.

What I Work On

Rather than group projects by language, here they are grouped by the problem each one addresses—several of them share code or dependencies across languages, but the themes below are about the subject, not the implementation.

Data structures & content representation

Organising and structuring data—from generic, language-level building blocks up to a specific applied domain (multilingual content).

• Nested dictionaries — an implementation of nested dictionaries with support for key hierarchies, published on pypi.org and documented on Read the Docs
• Simple advanced Data Structures — graphs, trees, stacks, and more, not yet published on pypi.org
• Translation management — inspired by Babel, structuring multilingual content with support for multiple translations and plural forms, published on pypi.org
• Clade — a Django-based module for building and managing hierarchical data models and published on pypi.org

Formal languages & computation theory

• Automata — a study of automata, languages, and formal grammars, published on pypi.org and documented on Read the Docs

Scientific computing — chromatography

For several months now, I have been exploring Rust as a potential successor to C—resuming work I stopped about thirty years ago—applied to a specific physical/chemical domain.

• Oxiflow — published on crates.io
• Chromatography — published on crates.io

Tooling & automation

Tools built to support the other projects, rather than a domain of their own.

• Dynamic CLI — also published on crates.io This repository also serves as the reference implementation for test automation methods and CI/CD pipelines used across my projects. The methodology is documented in the biface wiki; the concrete configuration files and their explanations live here.

→ Automation reference

This space is where I occasionally share personal reflections on software development, IT governance, and technical experiences — always behind the comfort of a pseudonym.