About

Hi!

My name is Sébastien, but most people call me “Seb”. I’m a software engineer based in Montpellier Saint-Paul, France.

Work

I’m currently working at RAFIKI by NALA as a Lead Backend Engineer to help build the future of financial services and payment infrastructure in Africa.

I was previously CTO at Bloomup, spent summers at Osper, Mendeley and BlueMind and worked as a consultant for various companies in the UK and France.

I’m a fullstack engineer at heart, though at the moment I lean heavily toward backend work. My day-to-day revolves around Go, Postgres, AWS and Kafka, building reliable, scalable systems. I’ve also worked with Rust, Python and built a few projects in Zig.

Interests

Outside of work, I spend most of my time outside in the mountains, on the water or in the air. I’m super passionate about paragliding, kitesurfing, rock climbing and skydiving. When I’m not outside, I’m usually learning new things (mainly hardware, electronics and embedded systems right now), working on some side projects or cooking pizza.

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Github: github.com/graphman65
Keybase: keybase.io/graphman
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sebastien-lacoste