Twenty-one years of open source, three CTO/scaleup tours, one nonprofit, one weekly podcast. Newest first — click any card to open it.
Six billion downloads. No ads. No tracking. No compromise.
Ultra-low-latency video over QUIC. 8 ms glass-to-glass.
The non-profit behind VLC, dav1d, x264 and the rest.
Advising founders and investors on video, infra, and open source.
Twenty-one years of patches, releases, and the quiet plumbing.
Earlier video venture.
Weekly podcast on AI, open source, and European tech.
World's fastest AV1 decoder. Hand-tuned assembly.
First company. Commercial engineering that funds VLC development.
Commercial support and engineering around FFmpeg.
European cloud — built sovereign infrastructure at scale.
Cloud computing for consumers — full Windows PC in the cloud.
The student association where it all started.
The world's most-used media player. Joined as a Centrale student in 2005, took over development in 2007, still leading it. Desktop, mobile, embedded — Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Chromecast, set-top boxes. Funded by donations and the VideoLAN non-profit — that's the whole business model.
Real-time video transport for cloud gaming, telemedicine, robotics, and physical-AI teleoperation. The infrastructure to make remote machines feel local. Open core, commercial cloud. Built on FFmpeg and QUIC.
20+ libraries, 100+ contributors, no advertisers, no shareholders. The boring infrastructure the multimedia world quietly runs on. Founded as a French association in 2008 to host VLC; grew into the umbrella for most of open source multimedia. President since 2008. Hosts VideoLAN Dev Days each fall.
Technical due diligence for VCs, advisory roles for startups across video, low-latency infrastructure, AI, and European sovereignty plays. Board seats and informal mentoring since 2016.
Maintainer of libraries the open source multimedia world quietly runs on — reverse-engineering, releasing, mentoring, and fixing the boring parts that nobody else will. The list below is the actively-maintained set; there are dozens more across FFmpeg / VideoLAN that I've contributed to over the years.
Earlier startup tour, focused on video and streaming.
With Steeve Morin and Mehdi Medjaoui. Live every Tuesday. 25+ episodes, top episode 271K views. Conversations with the people building European tech — founders, researchers, policy people.
Created with the FFmpeg community as a from-scratch, performance-first AV1 decoder. Ships in Firefox, Chrome, and most major streaming services. C + heavy hand-tuned assembly across x86, ARM, POWER and RISC-V. BSD-2 license. Funded by the Alliance for Open Media.
Founded in 2012 to make VLC sustainable: custom multimedia engineering, ports and licensing, with the revenue paying core developers to work on open source. Shipped VLC on mobile and new platforms, and grew into the main commercial home of the VLC ecosystem.
Long-running contributor to FFmpeg — patches, reviews, and the occasional release-engineering rescue. FFlabs funds open source multimedia work through commercial contracts: sustaining maintainers, paying for the boring infrastructure that everyone uses.
Engineering leadership across compute, storage and platform. Pushed open source by default and European data sovereignty as a product principle.
CTO during the scaleup phase. Streaming a full PC at gaming-grade latency, hundreds of thousands of subscribers, infrastructure across three continents.
École Centrale Paris's network and computing student association. Where I joined VLC, learned to ship, and met half the people I still work with twenty years later.