About me

My name is François, I’m a french guy living in Japan. I worked 5 years for a big french automotive company as an System Analyst/Engineer somewhere deep in Saitama. Now I’ve moved on to a nicer setting in downtown Tokyo for a French (again…) software company.

Here are a few facts about me:

  • I’m a co-founder of the successful french website MacBidouille.com
  • It has spawned an english version at HardMac.com
  • I’m bilingual in french and english thanks to studying at EABJM in Paris as a kid
  • There, I also studied japanese for 9 years, but I could barely make a sentence before coming to Japan
  • I graduated with an Engineering degree (major in Information Systems) in September 2004
  • After that I worked as a freelance web application developer to pay for my numerous travels around the world, all the while looking for a good job in Japan
  • I finally found it and moved to Japan in November 2005 with a 2 year contract
  • I was hired in Nov. 2007 in that same big French company, working on R&D Information Systems
  • In May 2011, I grew tired of the Japanese countryside and the lousy economic prospects of the automotive industry so I took a job at a software company in downtown Tokyo.

Other links of interest:

  • My web presence portal (fancy word for “links to my profiles around the web”)
  • Sunsetter, a little web app I made on my spare time to calculate when I can see the sunset behind Mt. Fuji from my window
  • A post I made describing my job as of February 2009