Raphaël Proust
In my free time, I occasionally play (both as player and game master) Dungeons and Dragons, Adventures in Middle-earth or other role playing games. I also enjoy the Pokémon franchise, the Zelda series, most things made by Introversion Software, Smash Up, Minecraft, and some other games.
After babbling BASIC on my CASIO graph 65, I learned OCaml. It is my go-to programming language for personal projects. I am rusty in Python, Javascript, and Scala. I have also been in contact with Scheme, Haskell and C. I am slowly learning rust. Most of my public software contributions are on Gitlab and on Github.
I speak French, English and some Spanish. I started learning Chinese and Toki Pona although I am not proficient in either.
Occupation
Present
I work on the Tezos project. I am a co-maintainer of the Lwt library. Checkout my CV for more information.
I irregularly publish homebrew content on the Dungeon Masters Guild.
Past
I worked as a freelance software developer and technical writer.
I worked for Cambridge Spark and Cambridge Coding Academy(wayback machine link) as a software developer and a course developer. I wrote software to write, review, edit, publish, and deliver courses; I wrote, reviewed, edited, published, and delivered courses about software.
I was a Ph.D. student at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge under supervision of Alan Mycroft. My thesis explored the use of compile-time memory management in the context of system programming: replacing garbage collectors by a compilation pass in order to be friendly to system programmers.
I was a student of Magdalene College and was involved in the MCR committee (first as Social officer, then as Secretary, then as President).
Misc
I use Archlinux, suckless tools, neovim, acme, and other things.
I have a Gitlab account, a Github account, and a mastodon account. I have homonyms – but no accounts – on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and probably more such websites.