
Hi, I'm Zachary
I am a Junior Software Engineer, currently in the final year of my Master's degree in Data Engineering and AI Systems at 42 Paris.
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Inception of Things
schoolDec. 2025
A hands-on DevOps introduction to Vagrant, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, and GitOps
- Automated K3s Clustering: Built a multi-node, lightweight Kubernetes (K3s) cluster across virtual machines provisioned and managed automatically via Vagrant.
- Host-Based Routing: Deployed and scaled multiple replicated web applications on a single node, managing traffic routing via a configured Kubernetes Ingress.
- GitOps Continuous Deployment: Transitioned the stack to K3d to run Kubernetes directly inside Docker, orchestrating a live CI/CD pipeline linked to a GitHub repository using Argo CD.
Hypertube
schoolNov. - Dec. 2025
A Modern BitTorrent Streaming Platform
Engineered a full-stack BitTorrent streaming web application using Astro, Tailwind CSS, NestJS, and Docker, featuring on-the-fly FFmpeg transcoding and MinIO object storage.
- Real-Time BitTorrent Streaming: Developed a platform that streams movies via the P2P protocol, leveraging NestJS and FFmpeg to transcode unsupported video formats on-the-fly for immediate browser playback.
- Orchestrated Microservices: Built a non-blocking backend architecture in Docker using Jackett for multi-tracker searches and qBittorrent for background downloads, with MinIO for persistent storage.
- Blazing Fast Frontend: Created a mobile-first, responsive user interface using Astro and Tailwind CSS, complete with infinite scrolling, advanced search filters, and distinct watched/unwatched states.
- Automated Subtitle Integration: Automated subtitle fetching via the SubDL API, dynamically serving tracks in English, French, and Spanish based on the user's preferred language settings.
Python Developer Internship @ BNP Paribas
proFeb. - Aug. 2025
Team Stability & Log Analytics
Automated workflows, created several CLI Python tools.
- Engineered a Python tool to save our Monitoring team several hours of daily work by automating batch email dispatch (5000+ total potential daily receivers) via Elasticsearch metadata extraction, featuring customizable content, Jinja2 templates, and detailed diagnostics; integrated into a Rundeck job for secure and parameterized execution by technical and non-technical team members.
- Built a modular CLI automation framework (Python + Bash) to validate and configure servers at scale (250+ servers at the time) using SSH-based hardware verification, RAID creation/deletion, and Ansible-based setup; featuring advanced filters, a stateful execution and diagnostics on server states and inventories status.
- Authored comprehensive documentation in Confluence for each project, including usage guides, architecture diagrams, in-depth code and design explanations, with thoroughly curated technical bibliographies to ensure maintainability.
OpenAI x 42 Hackathon 🥇
persoNov. 2024
1st place in the category 'Education'
In 24 hours, my team and I created a webapp allowing users to generate flashcards from study material, as well as quizzes. We implemented a spaced repetition algorithm for the cards, and managed to use OpenAI's real-time API to add a custom professor capable of helping students and explaining any card or question at any time by talking and dialoguing with them.
ft_transcendence
schoolApr. 2024
An SPA hosting remote pong tournaments
githubA full web application hosting remote pong tournaments, with 3D rendered gameplay, advanced game options including a battle royale mode and fully customizable game settings.
Inception
schoolFeb. 2024
An introduction to docker containers
githubA docker infrastructure composed of custom images, serving a wordpress website and a static one.
miniRT
schoolMay 2023
A simple raytracer in C
github
A simple raytracer in C capable of rendering in real time 3D scenes composed of several basic geometric objects and colored lights, while allowing the user to interact with them.
Minishell
schoolJan. 2023
A basic bash-like shell
githubA very basic shell written in C, matching as much as possible the behavior of bash --posix.
Master's Degree @ 42 Paris
schoolMay. 2022 - present
in Data Engineering & AI Systems
20+ projects exploring C, asm, C++, python, bash & shell scripting, webdev(multiple modern frameworks), networks, system programming, oop, data science & ML, AI, reverse engineering, binary exploits, unix systems, devops & infra, cybersec
Last updated 01/03/2026