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About me

Who I am

Hi, I'm Romain Spychala. I'm a 23 years old developer, and I like to learn new things.

I currently am searching for a new work opportunity after obtaining my master at Epitech. Previously, I have been working as a backend developer at Genfit (a biotech) and Mathflow (a startup in education). I am specialized in go and python.

Me

What I did

2021

After realizing that the path I was following as a student in sound engineering was not the one I wanted to follow, I decided to take time off and experiment. One of the first things I did was to learn how to code. I joined a bootcamp called The Hacking Project, and I learned how to code in Ruby and Javascript.

2022–2023

This experience was very rewarding, but I wanted to go further. I joined Simplon, a coding school in Lille where I learned Python and Datascience.

It's in the projects that I learned the most. I got to work on the things I learned and I could deepen my knowledge on the subjects I was especially interested in. I also got to work with other people, some of them are now my friends.

Parallel to that, I was working at Genfit, a biopharma, where I was developing a tool to help the histology team quantify dying cells.

2023-2025

Epitech was another learning experience centered around group projects. Since many technology and project choices were mine, I decided to deepen my go, rust and c++ knowledge.

I lead an end of study project centered about a music plugin known as a VST that was developed in Rust using nih-plug.

I was working at Mathflow, a startup in math education, to help build the app and especially the different APIs along with the server infrastructure.

Université de Rouen Normandie, logo
The Hacking Project, logo
Simplon.co, logo
Epitech, logo

What I like

I really like to learn new things and to experiment, so my hobbies change a lot. Some things stick with me though. Here are some of the things I've done in the past:

  • Playing the piano and learning music theory
  • Solving a rubik's cube in 20 seconds, and solving similar, harder, puzzles
  • Learning Chess (I'm still terrible however)
  • Speedrunning games (Out There Somewhere, a bit of Minecraft)
  • Diving into the world of typography and weird symbols
  • Digging into the custom keyboard rabbit hole and building some
  • Re-taking the habit of reading like I used to
  • Learning different keyboards layouts (qwerty, colemak dh)

Currently, I spend a lot of time learning to make music using a DAW, sound design and bass playing (I started in may 2025).

A Cort Action PJ hanging on the wall, it has a purple strap and the bass has a glossy almost orange wood

What I do

The skills I picked up during my studies and personal projects are various. Rather than listing them all, I'll just list the ones I'm most proud of.

Programming languages

The languages I have the most knowledge on are: Ruby, Javascript, Python and Golang. The 3 last ones are the ones I still use regularly.

Frameworks

The frameworks I've used the most are: Ruby on Rails, React, Svelte, FastAPI and Gin.

Collaborative work

I understand the Agile mindset and I know how to apply it. I've noticed the difference it makes in terms of productivity and quality of work. I especially like to work with people that understand the importance of good communication and don't think of Agile as a burden.

Other

I know how to use Docker, Git and Linux pretty well. I have enough knowledge of AWS, Azure, Bash, SQL and NoSQL to use them in a project.