Miscellaneous

Competitions

I took part into many computer science competitions, including the following one:

• International Olympiads in Informatics (IOI) in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, winning 2 bronze medals (with ranks 123 and 88) and a silver medal (with rank 30).
• The French MDF competition (Meilleur dev de france / Master Dev France), winning the 1st place in 2019 and 2023, during the 7th and 8th editions, against over 1600 to 2000 competitors.
• Participation in various other competitions: Codeforces, SWERC, Prologin, Algoréa (french competition, 2nd in 2015), BattleDev (1st and 2nd in 2018 and 2019), FARIO, Codingame, infO(1) cup, USACO, Google code jam, AXA code challenge (1st team), Le Shaker coding battle (1st in 2021, 2022 and 2023), Kiro (optimization, 1st team in 2021, 2nd team in 2022), TRACS (13th team in 2021, 3rd team in 2022, organized by CentraleSupelec and the DGSE)

Hobbies

TTRPG

I am a big enjoyer and a GM of TTRPGs (tabletop role-playing games), and put some contents about it online on my ttrpg blog: yalsicorjdr (in French). Feel free to reach at yalsicor.the.kind <at> <gmail> for any ttrpg-related discussion!

Books

If you want recommendations:

• Tchaikovsky (Children of Time and Dogs of War in particular)
• Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy, starting with The Bear and the Nightingale).