Hi, I am Julien! I am a final year undergraduate at Concordia University, in Systems and Information Biology, a program which no one has ever heard about. With each passing day, I increasingly suspect I might be the only one following it.

Divided between the seat at my desk, where I constantly learn new technologies, and the great outside world, where I marvel at the life around me, I seek a life that will unite both in beautiful harmony. Here are some things I did to fulfill that quest.

Inside

I enjoy the Rust programming language the most

because I am easily susceptible to social contagion

because the crushing despair of a post-industrial society inspires me to join pseudo-religious movements

because I enjoy talking to anarchist catgirls

because the programming equivalent of a weighted blanket satisfies my inner neurodivergent

because it's a joy to have my every keystroke constantly scrutinized by the watchful eye of rust-analyzer.

• I rewrote 352 compiler integrity tests for the main Rust repository, from blasphemous Makefile syntax to blessed, robust Rust.

• I manufacture an artificial sense of pride and accomplishment by going to university technology competitions.

• Not content with squandering years of my life through video games, I try to get other lost souls to waste their years too by participating in gamedev-tangential communities. Right now, I am writing a quick-start guide on making a traditional roguelike in Bevy.

Outside

• I interned in a leather chemistry research center in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, and got to pull beaver skins back and forth inside a mildly menacing fleshing machine. I eventually completed a salmon tanning project with tannins derived from acacia tree bark. One of the completed samples now decorates my wall.

• I worked in an entomological research lab, where tasks ranged from preprocessing a machine learning dataset for varied species of songbirds in agricultural environments, to assembling traps outside to catch insects of many colours, shapes and sizes.