CF
EN / FR
Portfolio — 2026

From requirements to production: I design, deploy and maintain custom solutions — and I love it when AI runs locally.

Software engineering apprentice

CESI × b-ready

Not looking — but open to offers
Requirements✦Design✦Architecture✦Local AI✦DevOps✦Windows apps✦Custom web✦Maintenance✦Support✦Client relations✦Requirements✦Design✦Architecture✦Local AI✦DevOps✦Windows apps✦Custom web✦Maintenance✦Support✦Client relations✦

01 — Mindset

At b-ready,we alwaysdo theimpossible.

b-ready — Demain commence aujourd'hui

Web, native Windows apps, infrastructure — and very often, we keep the ship afloat.

Portrait de Clément Faux
Clément FauxParis

02 — Who am I?

Every day I become a bit more of an engineer.

An apprentice at CESI and b-ready, I learned to thrive in the crazy world of chartered accountancy. Working alongside accountants, I take part in transforming their profession and help them move towards AI.

Comfortable with pretty much anything that interests me: gathering client requirements, design, architecture, development, maintenance and support.

I especially enjoy DevOps and local AI: building the machine, isolating, deploying, and shipping a professional tool people can trust.

Above all, I care about people. A solution is only worth something if it truly helps those who use it.

at b-ready, from intern to apprentice
3 yrs
clients: MyFides, CROEC Paris, CNOEC and b-ready
4
international internship at Ulster University (Northern Ireland)
1
CESI engineering degree, in September
2027
Get in touch

03 — Expertise

The whole chain, not just the code.

What I do, from the first client meeting to support. Click for details.

01 / Product

From need to production

01
  • Requirements gathering

    Meeting clients, understanding their trade (accounting files, payroll declarations, statutory audits…) and turning a problem into clear specifications.

  • Design & architecture

    Thinking it through before writing code: an ecosystem of apps around a central API, shared authentication, data and evolutions.

  • Custom development

    Web applications and native Windows apps, built to be maintained for years.

  • Maintenance & evolution

    Legacy code, migrations, security and new features on applications in production.

02 / AI

Local AI & privacy

02
  • Smart anonymisation

    BERT-type models combined with validated rules to mask personal data, without sending anything online.

  • In-house AI server

    Building a dedicated machine, models running locally and an isolated environment for the team.

  • Embedded AI & 3D

    Teaching avatar, image generation and AI-connected virtual reality, all running locally.

03 / Infra

DevOps & distribution

03
  • Servers & network

    Hosting, DNS, firewall, mail, certificates, internal VPN and backups.

  • Shipping a real app

    From Python code to a compiled binary, then to an installer — self-taught.

  • EV code signing

    Worked with Sectigo to obtain an EV Code Signing certificate: a professional executable with a good reputation.

  • Security

    Two-factor and centralised authentication, isolated environments.

04 / Human

Relations & support

04
  • Client relations

    Working with accountants and the professional bodies, explaining simply, reassuring.

  • Support

    Unblocking users, helping them get started, documenting.

  • Team spirit

    Small team, high stakes: we help each other and keep the ship afloat together.

  • Professional English

    A full internship in English at Ulster University, Northern Ireland.

04 — Education

Education

Four stops, from Foix to Nanterre.

CESI — Nanterre
04Graduating Sept 2027

2024 — 2027

Master's in Engineering

CESI — Nanterre

Work-study engineering degree with b-ready. A school that also helped me grow up.

IUT Paul Sabatier — Toulouse
03Graduated

2022 — 2024

Bachelor's in Computer Science

IUT Paul Sabatier — Toulouse

Software development, databases and project management.

IUT Nice Côte d’Azur — Nice
02First year

2021 — 2022

Bachelor's in Computer Science

IUT Nice Côte d’Azur — Nice

Programming fundamentals.

Lycée Gabriel Fauré — Foix
01Obtained

2019 — 2021

High school diploma

Lycée Gabriel Fauré — Foix

Majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science. My first lines of code.

05 — Experience

Work experience

  1. Apprenticeship — AI & DevOps

    Sept 2025 — Sept 2027

    “La Ruche de l’IA” project: AI for accounting firms, running locally and privately.

    • Kamouflix: the whole chain, from client need to distribution
    • Built the in-house AI PC and its isolated environment
    • AI tools for CROEC Paris
    • MyFides ecosystem evolutions

  2. Apprenticeship — Development & infra

    Sept 2024 — Sept 2025

    Growing and securing the MyFides apps in production.

    • Bazooka evolutions
    • Migration and legacy refactoring
    • Two-factor authentication
    • Backups, VPN, servers, DNS, mail

  3. Internship then contract

    Mar — Sept 2024

    My first applications in production.

    • Bazoo API: centralised authentication and AI
    • First versions of Bazooka

Highlights

Windows app · Local AI

Kamouflix

Anonymise and pseudonymise structured files (accounting and payroll exports) and text documents (Word, PDF even scanned, Excel) before handing them to an AI — then restore the results. Everything runs on the computer, offline.

  • BERT-type AI detection + validated rules
  • Leak check on every output file
  • Restoring AI-generated deliverables
  1. 01Client need
  2. 02Design
  3. 03Development
  4. 04Compiled binary
  5. 05Installer
  6. 06EV signing
  7. 07Distribution
  8. 08Support
pc-ia — b-ready
$ host     HP Z440
$ gpu      RTX 3090 · 24 GB
$ runtime  Ollama
$ sandbox  isolated VM → Hermes
● online  100% local

Infra · IA locale

In-house AI PC

Turning an HP Z440 workstation into an AI server: added an RTX 3090 and a new power supply, then installed Ollama and an isolated VM running Hermes for the team.

bazooka.myfides.fr
MyFides ecosystem

Web · business platforms

MyFides ecosystem

A galaxy of apps for accountants (Bazooka, Social360, VeryFEC…) connected to a central API and shared authentication.

capsurlaperformance.fr / outils-ia

[Rôle] Tu es un expert-comptable…

[Contexte] Mon client {secteur}…

[Tâche] Analyse et propose…

[Format] Tableau synthétique

⧉ Copy prompt

CNOEC · CROEC Paris

For the profession

Tools for the bodies of the accounting profession, including a catalogue of AI prompts and skills for Île-de-France accountants on Cap Performance.

The Peace Bridge, Derry~Londonderry
Ulster University

International internship — AI & 3D R&D

Ulster University

Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland — 2026

Internship with Mr Callaghan. Goal: a smart course-support system running entirely locally.

  1. 01

    Course support in Unity

    A 3D environment to deliver lessons interactively.

  2. 02

    Teaching avatar

    An avatar that gives the lesson and generates images, with local AI on an NVIDIA chip.

  3. 03

    Virtual reality

    First developments on Meta Quest, with the AI connected to the Unity MCP.

Vitesco Technologies

Vitesco Technologies

Apr — Jun 2023

Web developer

Internship: web application integrating production tools, connected to the plant’s IT asset management tool.

06 — My open-source project

Hawkwall

A hawk's eye on your infrastructure.

You work. It watches.

Hawkwall is the hosting and security panel I designed for Debian VPS: sites, continuous deployment, databases, VPN, backups and monitoring, all from a single dashboard. One panel, zero blind spots.

Open sourcePrivate beta

01 / Firewall

Docker bypasses UFW. Hawkwall doesn't.

Docker rewrites the firewall and ignores UFW, a problem documented for years. Hawkwall watches every Docker event in real time and reapplies the rules, container after container.

02 / Architecture

The admin has no address on the Internet.

The panel, the VPN and database access don't listen on the Internet. Only what must be public is, isolated and limited to a single route.

03 / AI

An agent that knows your server.

The AI agent doesn't guess commands: it calls the same actions as your buttons, with the rights you grant it, and re-checks the real state after each step. Everything is logged.

04 / Backups

Encrypted backups.

To S3, SFTP or a local disk, encrypted before leaving the server, deduplicated and scheduled.

The panel, for real.

Real screenshots, not mock-ups.

Install

$ curl -fsSL https://hawkwall.com/install.sh | bash
10.0.0.1:3333 — reachable through VPN only
Discover hawkwall.com

07 — Highlight

80th French Chartered Accountants Congress

September 2025 · Exhibiting with MyFides

I had the chance to represent our work on the stand of the MyFides association, our client. A great opportunity to see first-hand how our tools fit into accountants’ daily work.

« A project that shows how central software engineering has become to the challenges of the accounting profession. »
🙏 And last but not least

Yves Le Dain, the first to trust me, my boss and “Tonton”. Thank you for everything you passed on to me, in the job as in life.

See the post on LinkedIn

08 — Student projects

Student projects

01 — 2023

Stack Overflow Survey

Lead developer — team

Analysis of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey to visualise salary trends in tech.

02 — 2023

TF-IDF search

Lead developer

Keyword-based document search and recommendation engine.

03 — 2023

Blog project

Lead developer — pair

Blog API with an application server and an authentication server.

04 — 2023

Property management

Lead developer — team

Database and desktop client to manage rental properties.

09 — Contact

Let's talkabout your project.

A question, an idea, a custom need? I reply quickly.

What I'm looking for

Nothing right now!

I'm having a blast in my lab at b-ready, learning something new every day, until I graduate in September 2027. But I'm always happy to hear proposals: feel free to reach out.

Or directly

Paris, France