👋 Hi I’m Valentin. Curiosity, backed by a capacity to learn at record speed. This is where I get my drive from. Being curious is my nature and swift learning my weapon of mass productivity:

• 🐉 Knowing nothing of fuzzing in 2018, 2 years later I published the most cited survey of the fields, and I merged code into the most widely used fuzzer, LibFuzzer. This new algorithm was tested, approved and deployed in the largest fuzzing cluster: OSS-Fuzz (run by Google).
• 🏦 Coming from research, I knew nothing of classical “back-end engineering”. After 6 months at Qonto, I discover and solved a bug causing a 50k€ loss per month. Their infrastructure has a Ruby plus SQL stack, two languages I had no prior experience with.
• 🤖 In 6 months, I created the foundation of the data engineering of PacketAI’s cloud monitoring system using a stack based on Kafka and Elasticsearch. Again, I was not familiar with this field and its tools.

Just-in-time learning feels like a super power. It’s the meta-skill. You get in front of the problem you don’t know anything about, you search and learn, and suddenly you have a solution.

Learning is about creating mental models. Simplify, remove the noise and get to the essential: How can I get 95% of the output with only 5% of the effort.

“The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make." — Naval Ravikant