François Bastien

Dad, musician, programmer

Gembloux, Belgium

About me

Dad of three daughters, I live in Gembloux, Belgium. By training, I'm a biologist — I've kept from that a fascination for evolution, natural selection, and science in general. Fairly quickly I found myself coding, and it became my job.

Outside of work: CrossFit, hiking, a few microadventures, music, lots of science fiction, and quite a bit of open source tinkering.

Professional availability

Developer with experience in backend and fullstack software development, I'm currently actively looking for opportunities. Meticulous and quality-oriented, I'm comfortable on projects that value good practices, open source, and automation.

My atypical background — biology then development — has taught me to approach problems methodically and with an analytical eye. I'm open to positions in Belgium or remote.

CV — French · CV — English

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I reworked the French translation of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky where Harry Potter grows up with a scientific education and applies rational thinking to the wizarding world. The existing translation had some issues — I tried to do better.

Read online · Download epub · Source (GitHub)

PDF versions for printing

Horn and brass band

I play horn in the Fanfare de Morialmé. I also like rewriting my sheet music when it's illegible, or transposing it — going from E♭ to F is often necessary for the horn and happens to me regularly.

Every year, the band takes part in the Saint-Pierre festival in Morialmé, a local celebration I'm fond of.

Hans Hoyer 6801 double horn, Kruspe system
This is my horn