Raphael Sequoya Baum

I build things
for the web.

Software engineer in France. I went through 42, then went back and helped open one. These days it's Vue and Node for people who make things, and Solidity when the thing has to live on-chain.

42

student, then staff · Paris 2014–2018 · Lisbon 2021–2022

A school with no teachers and no lectures. You get a subject, a deadline, and a room full of people equally lost. I did the curriculum in C — a raytracer, a Core War VM and the assembler to feed it, a shell, a fractal explorer, philosophers deadlocking forever over dinner.

Then in 2021 I went to Lisbon to help open a new campus, which turned out to be an entirely different job: racking and imaging the machines, running the IT, and writing the internal tooling — including a Postgres-backed dashboard so staff could see what was actually happening on the floor.

Going through it teaches you to build without being told how. Building it teaches you what that costs to run.

TokenTech

co-founder · 2022 — now

A web3 agency I co-founded. NFT launches, smart contracts, marketplaces — Solidity and Hardhat on one side, Vue and web3.js on the other.

The contract is the easy half. The hard half is a mint page that survives its own launch day, and a contract nobody can quietly drain six months later. Most of the job is declining to ship the clever version.

Before that

2017 — 2019

  • Golem.ai

    lead frontend · 2018 — 2019

    Led the frontend of an AI automation platform — Vue, from early prototype through to something customers ran their operations on.

  • Wittycircle

    backend · 2017

    Backend on a professional networking startup. Node, Express, Postgres.

Lab

sketches

Things that move. No purpose beyond looking at them.

  • Flowink dragged through a noise field
  • Try Anglea star that keeps falling into itself

Elsewhere

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