Hello there 👋,

My name is Matthias and I am a (French 🇫🇷 🥖) software engineer who cares about quality and user experience. I've been writing programs since 10, after asking my dad what I needed to learn to create my own Game-boy games.

Naturally, I became a passionate software engineer and over the course of my carrier, I've had to deal with various systems from various industries (Space, IoT, Education, Payment, Blockchain...) and explored many programming languages (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, JavaScript, Elm, Haskell...). I promote open-source whenever I can and I've been trying to increasingly contribute and give back to open-source communities ever since I started programming.

Sponsoring

It's only after many years that I am now considering applying to the Github Sponsors program as open-source is now driving a significant amount of my free time, in particular in the context of Cardano with projects like Ogmios now used by dozens of large-scale projects. Since 2022, I have also arranged my professional time into a 4-day week to keep more time dedicated to open-source work. By becoming a sponsor, you're not only showing your recognition but also helping me spend more time on:

• 🔧 Maintaining existing projects I am working on;
• 📚 Writing more guides, documentation and tutorials;
• 🧰 Creating new tools for developers;
• 💡 Working on new project ideas.

My focus nowadays is mostly on functional programming languages such as Haskell or Elm, for which I still have tons of ideas I would love to give birth to. Given my background and current position, a lot of those ideas orbit around blockchains (and in particular Cardano) or cryptography.

Follow Me

I am quite active on Twitter (@_KtorZ_), where I like to push out information or educational content in the form of threads, as well as some (hopefully good) memes from time to time after long days and nights.