About Me
Hi !
I’m Louis, my initials are LJMC – hence we blog’s name – and my pronouns are he/him.
I was born in 1996, in the South of France. I lived there for the first almost 18 years of my life, and a month shy of turning 18, I moved to the UK to study at Imperial College London (pre bad logo). This worked out well and I have a BSc1 and a MSc2 whose subjects are less than useful for what I do now, but whose rigour and methods I still apply on a daily basis. I even started a PhD3 at the University of Stockholm, but with the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and, in general, changing circumstances, I dropped out.
Fast forward to today, I live in Cambridge with my fiancée.
I am a self-taught software engineer, always challenging myself to learn and think differently. I am well versed in python, pretty well versed in Rust that I am still learning, somewhat versed in Java that I am not. In my code and my life in general, I obsessively optimise to what some people describe as a fault, preferring to do something correctly than quickly.
In terms of employment, I am a full time employee of Proxymity Ltd and since Q1 2025, I have been a Software Delivery Manager, taking a step away from the Individual Contributor path I had been on for the previous 4½ years to instead help my team(s) reach their full potential and deliver new products, features and remediate tech debt. I work a lot with the product team to refine their “needs, wants and demands”4 into deliverables catered for the team I am working with at that time. I work (mostly) remotely with colleagues scattered around the globe. At work, I am a advocate of the inclusive naming initiative and often raise comments/pull-requests to reduce harmful language.
Additional details about me in no particular order:
- I practice intermittent fasting (8/16), basically an inherited trait as I do not come from a household that puts much, if any, emphasis on breakfast.
- I follow a flexitarian diet with less than a quarter of my meals containing meat products that I source exclusively from high welfare local producers.
- I am a lapsed catholic, I did my first communion but was never confirmed.
- I believe in charitable donations, and have given since getting a year-round salary, my first donation being the [AMF TÉLÉTHON] a charity I can only recommend you look up and donate to in the fight against orphan diseases.
- I love farm animals, big and small and visit Wimpole Estate’s working farm several times in last year to see the piglets grow up and leave.
- I have never visited a place as cool in this world as the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, Cornwall.
- I love cheese, charcuterie and wine (very surprising I know), and also food in general, the cooking and eating of it, hence adding a recipes section to this website where I will post recipes I copied, tweaked and cooked.
- I used to answer questions on StackOverflow until it’s untimely LLM-caused death as a learning tool. I particularly enjoyed learning things for the following answers:
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry ↩︎
Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology ↩︎
in Statistical Molecular Dynamics if you want to know ↩︎
forgive the marketing term, but really that’s a lot of what I do, every product or feature has must-haves, i.e. needs, nice-to-haves, i.e. wants, and a budget/ROI that hopefully lands somewhere in between them, too many times it lands on needs only… ↩︎