Drawn always to where things are made.

Self-taught from age eleven. Born in Moscow, raised in the south of France, based in Toulouse. Across twenty years the work keeps bending toward the same place — not the surface, where things are used, but the layer beneath, where they are made: consensus, protocols, the infrastructure power actually runs on.

The conviction underneath it is sovereignty. Self-custody, displacing the gatekeeper, handing power back to the person — a position held since the early Bitcoin days, and the reason the work has stayed in cryptography and decentralized systems rather than the layer above them.

A craftsman by temperament: zero-dependency, from-scratch, fast, security-conscious. The biggest wins came when a decisive operator owned the commercial front while the engineering was owned end to end — a pattern worth repeating on purpose.