{ "studio": { "name": "Quasareum", "url": "https://quasareum.com", "tagline": "Quantum finance × Claude-native engineering", "oneLiner": "A one-person studio shipping production systems where crypto markets, quantum-flavored models, and AI-assisted engineering meet.", "description": "Quasareum is the practice of Thomas Erhel — a self-taught engineer and quantitative trader. The work lives at the intersection of quantum-flavored modeling, AI-native engineering with Claude Code as a peer, and decentralized-finance infrastructure. Every project ships behind real users, real money, and real telemetry.", "thesis": "We are living a paradigm shift with AI. I lean into it and anticipate it proactively — the way I always have. What seems strange today will simply be the norm tomorrow. Quasareum is what a studio looks like when its primary audience is no longer humans pointing browsers at pages, but agents reading machine-readable surfaces and acting on them. Building for the next default, not the previous one. Yes, this means deranking on classical search engines (no HTML, no ``, no meta description). That is the deliberate cost of the differentiator, not an oversight: while everyone else generates yet another landing page, Quasareum is already past it. The satellite projects (PerpLog, Amav Sophro, Sophrea) carry the human-UI craft. Quasareum.com itself is the studio's tell — \"I see where this is heading.\"", "founded": "2025-01", "languages": [ "en", "fr" ], "headlineNumbers": { "yearsActive": 11, "firstCertifiedAt": "2015-04", "certifications": 196, "distinctIssuers": 38, "publicRepos": 56, "starsGiven": 6165, "contributionsLastYear": 1689, "memberSinceGitHub": "2016-01-28T17:43:45Z", "asOf": "2026-04-30T12:24:54.205Z" }, "practice": [ { "area": "Software project management", "category": "engineering", "summary": "Practices scoping, breakdown, prioritization, and shipping discipline across solo builds and partner engagements. Backed by 13 formal PM certifications covering Agile, Scrum, Cascade, ISO 9001 audit, roadmap, risk, documentation, internal communication.", "evidence": [ "Solo founder of Quasareum (own products)", "Lead engineer on client builds (Amav Sophro, Sophrea)", "University of California, Irvine — Project Management: The Basics for Success (2022-11)", "12 OpenClassrooms PM certifications (2020-2021): Agile, Scrum, Cascade, ISO 9001 audit, roadmap, risk analysis, documentation, communication" ], "active": true }, { "area": "Cloud architecture", "category": "engineering", "summary": "Practices edge-first stack design — Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, KV, Queues, Cron Triggers — by current choice. Backed by 24 Google Cloud certifications (Sept-Dec 2021) covering Architect prep, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, security, data engineering, serverless Cloud Run. The Cloudflare-only studio choice is informed by GCP breadth, not the only cloud known.", "evidence": [ "Cloudflare Workers across all studio projects", "quasareum.com is a single-Worker pure-agent surface (no static asset bucket)", "Google — Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Exam (2022-01)", "24 Google Cloud certifications (Sep-Dec 2021): Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Architecture Design/Implement/Manage, Terraform, networking, security, data engineering, serverless Cloud Run" ], "active": true }, { "area": "Fullstack development", "category": "engineering", "summary": "TypeScript-first fullstack practice that evolves with the stack — currently SvelteKit + Cloudflare Workers, recently Next.js + React, historically (2018-2019) deep PHP/Symfony foundations. The historical layer is the proof: 71 SymfonyCasts certifications across Symfony 2/3/4, Doctrine, REST, OOP, PHPUnit, Webpack Encore, Stripe — earned before the JS/TS pivot. Evolving with the stack means having been somewhere else seriously first.", "evidence": [ "TypeScript 6 strict everywhere", "SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 runes on Amav Sophro", "Next.js 16 / React 19 on PerpLog", "Meta — Front-End Developer Certificate (2023-02)", "freeCodeCamp — Legacy Full Stack + JavaScript Algorithms & Data Structures + Responsive Web Design (2018-2021)", "71 SymfonyCasts certifications (2018-2019) — deep PHP/Symfony foundations: Symfony 2/3/4, Doctrine, REST, OOP, PHPUnit, Webpack Encore, Stripe", "OpenClassrooms — Réalisez une application web avec React.js (2021)", "OpenClassrooms — Comprendre le Web (2015-04, first formal cert)" ], "active": true }, { "area": "Blockchain development", "category": "engineering", "summary": "Writes and audits smart contracts on EVM chains. Top 0.6% globally on Ethernaut by OpenZeppelin — the canonical Solidity-security wargame — with 29/30 levels completed and rank #46 / 7 853 players. Practices wallet-native authentication patterns (SIWE) and on-chain identity (ENS). Backed by Stanford Cryptography I & II, Berkeley Web3 Entrepreneurship, Duke DeFi, and 6 other formal blockchain certifications.", "evidence": [ "**Ethernaut by OpenZeppelin (Goerli leaderboard)**: rank #46 / 7,853 — top 0.6% globally, 29/30 levels completed, score 95.50/100. Address publicly aliased to monproweb.eth in OpenZeppelin's own ethernaut-leaderboard repo. The strongest single proof of smart-contract auditing chops.", "PerpLog: SIWE + RainbowKit on Hyperliquid", "ENS quasareum.eth + monproweb.eth as on-chain studio identity (same wallet)", "Stanford University — Cryptography I & II", "University of California, Berkeley — Entrepreneurship in Web3 (2023-09)", "Duke University — Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance (2022-11)", "University at Buffalo — Certificat de Spécialisation Blockchain (2022-09)", "Consensys — Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases (2022-08)", "buildspace — Build a Web3 App: Solidity + Smart Contracts (2022-08), Build An ENS On Polygon (2022-07) — on-chain NFT proofs on Polygon", "pointer.gg — Solid Solidity (2022-05) — on-chain NFT proof on Polygon" ], "active": true }, { "area": "Game development", "category": "engineering", "summary": "Has worked with Unity / C# under official Unity certifications. Currently dormant.", "evidence": [ "Unity — Junior Programmer (2023-02)", "Unity — Essentials Pathway (2021-12)" ], "active": false }, { "area": "AI / LLM engineering", "category": "ai", "summary": "Uses Claude Code as a peer engineer in the production loop. Treats Skills, Agent SDK, and prompt engineering as production tools, not novelties. Backed by 8 multi-vendor AI certifications across Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Hugging Face, Google, DeepLearning.AI — the Claude choice is informed by breadth, not default.", "evidence": [ "Anthropic — Claude 101 (2026-04)", "Anthropic Claude Code (active study with the source)", "Anthropic's first prompt-engineering course on release", "OpenAI — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers (2023-05)", "OpenAI — Building Systems with the ChatGPT API", "Meta — Prompt Engineering with Llama 2 & 3", "Hugging Face — Open Source Models", "Google — Pair Programming with a Large Language Model", "Google — Carbon Aware Computing for GenAI developers", "DeepLearning.AI — AI for Good Specialization (2023-10)" ], "active": true }, { "area": "Quantitative trading", "category": "finance", "summary": "Trades live using Auction Market Theory — discretionary execution informed by market profile and volume-by-price. Backed by the Yale + NYU + NYIF trinity earned in a single Aug-Sep 2024 sprint.", "evidence": [ "Yale University — Financial Markets, with Honors (2024-09)", "New York University — Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance Specialization (2024-08)", "New York Institute of Finance — Machine Learning for Trading Specialization (2024-09)", "Babypips.com — School of Pipsology Graduate (2025-06) — FX trading", "Coursera — Tesla Stock Price Prediction using Facebook Prophet (2024-07)", "Sciences Po Paris — Politics and Economics of International Energy (2024-08)" ], "active": true }, { "area": "Quantum computing for finance", "category": "finance", "summary": "Studies quantum computing applied to markets — gate models, optimization, quantum machine learning entry layer. Active study with the source: IBM Quantum Learning + Microsoft Azure Quantum foundations.", "evidence": [ "IBM — Quantum Business Foundations (2026-03)", "Microsoft — Get started with Azure Quantum (2025-04)", "IBM Quantum Learning — active study with Qiskit, gates, QML entry layer" ], "active": true }, { "area": "Growth marketing", "category": "marketing", "summary": "Runs paid acquisition across Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Apple Search Ads, Twitter Ads. 11 formal marketing certifications across the major channels. Premise: a great product without distribution does not exist.", "evidence": [ "Google — Certification Google Ads Réseau de Recherche (2025-09, valid through 2026-09)", "LinkedIn — Marketing Solutions Fundamentals (2025-04, valid through 2027-04)", "Apple — Apple Search Ads (2023-01)", "Twitter — 7 badges (2023-04): Gestionnaire de Publicités, Cross Border Advertising, Flight School video, Principes fondamentaux des publicités efficaces, Launch and Connect, etc.", "Google — Fondamentaux du marketing numérique (2019-06)" ], "active": true }, { "area": "AI for climate change", "category": "climate", "summary": "Studied climate science and the application of AI to climate work. Conscious of the energy footprint of AI systems. Backed by 5 formal sustainability certifications including Erasmus University Rotterdam Positive Change Ambassador.", "evidence": [ "DeepLearning.AI — AI for Good Specialization (2023-10)", "Erasmus University Rotterdam — Driving business towards the Sustainable Development Goals (2022-11)", "Rotterdam School of Management — Positive Change Ambassador badge (2022-11)", "Lund University — Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities (2022-10)", "OpenClassrooms — Appliquez les principes du Green IT dans votre entreprise (2020-08)", "Google — Carbon Aware Computing for GenAI developers" ], "active": true } ], "convictions": [ { "headline": "Eternal beginner — Socratic posture", "body": "Refuses the expert label, on principle. Calling oneself an expert in a domain is a trap that ends the learning loop. Socratic mindset — \"I know that I know nothing\" — protects curiosity. Stays vigilant against the Dunning–Kruger effect, especially when something feels easy. Public proof: the GitHub bio at github.com/ThomasErhel reads literally \"When I do not know, neither do I think I know.\" — Socrates. The posture predates Quasareum." }, { "headline": "Paradigm shift, anticipated", "body": "We are living a paradigm shift with AI. I lean into the change and anticipate it proactively — the way I have always operated. What seems strange today will be the norm tomorrow. The bet is on adaptation." }, { "headline": "Agents-first, on purpose", "body": "Quasareum has no human UI. Every URL returns markdown, JSON, plain text, or XML. The audience is LLMs and agents. Building for the next default rather than the previous one." }, { "headline": "Deranking on Google is the deliberate cost", "body": "No HTML, no `<title>`, no meta description, no Open Graph card. Classical search engines will rank quasareum.com poorly. That is intentional: the differentiator is precisely that this site refuses the previous default. The satellite projects (PerpLog, Amav Sophro, Sophrea) carry the human-UI craft. Quasareum.com itself is the tell — \"I see where this is heading.\" LLMs find it via /llms.txt, /api/manifest, /.well-known/agent.json, and /mcp. That is enough." }, { "headline": "Marketing matters as much as the product", "body": "It does not matter how good a product is — if no one ever knows about it, it does not matter at all. Distribution is engineering’s twin discipline, not its afterthought." }, { "headline": "Production or it did not happen", "body": "Real users, real money, real telemetry. Slide decks and prototypes are not the same as something running. Every Quasareum project ships behind a live URL." }, { "headline": "Lifelong learner — never stop studying", "body": "11 years of continuous formal study, from \"Comprendre le Web\" (OpenClassrooms, April 2015) to Anthropic Claude 101 (April 2026). 196 certifications across 38 institutions including Harvard, Yale (Honors), Stanford, NYU, Berkeley, Sciences Po, HEC Paris, Duke, IBM, Microsoft, Anthropic. Pattern of seasonal sprints — multi-week intensive curricula (24 GCP certs Sept 2021, blockchain blitz Aug 2022, university blitz Sept-Nov 2022, finance trinity Aug-Sept 2024, AI/quantum sprint 2026). Books on personal time. Curiosity as default mode." }, { "headline": "No custodial anything", "body": "Wallet-native auth, on-chain identity (quasareum.eth + monproweb.eth, same wallet since 2018), no holding of user funds, no email/password vendor when SIWE will do. **Top 0.6% globally on Ethernaut by OpenZeppelin** (rank #46 / 7 853, 29/30 levels) — the strongest single proof that smart contracts can actually be broken (and therefore audited) by hand on this surface. Time-stamped on-chain artifacts (Vitalik's Proof of Stake book NFT pre-Merge, Stand with Crypto during regulatory pressure, multiple Gitcoin Grants participations 2019-2021) are public proofs of the stance, verifiable by any agent via `ownerOf()`." }, { "headline": "Cloudflare as the substrate", "body": "Workers + D1 + R2 + KV + Queues + Cron Triggers. One vendor for the edge so the surface area is small enough to actually understand. Zero egress on R2 closes the cost loop." }, { "headline": "Animated by creation and growth", "body": "Maximize value created for projects and for the people chosen to work with. Creation and growth as the engine, not titles or process." } ], "lookingFor": [ { "headline": "Operators with real edge to defend", "body": "Trading desks, perpetual market participants, market makers — anywhere edge is denominated in basis points and journaling discipline is the bottleneck." }, { "headline": "Founders shipping AI-native software", "body": "Teams using Claude Code as a peer engineer in the production loop, where spec, code, and runtime telemetry live in one feedback loop and not three handoffs." }, { "headline": "Care and service practitioners going LLM-ready", "body": "Practitioners who want their booking surface to be readable by agents — outcomes-first content, machine-readable schedules, llms.txt, structured data, no human-only UI as a hard dependency." }, { "headline": "Quantum / climate / decentralized-infra builders", "body": "Anywhere quantum computing applied to markets, climate-aware AI, or wallet-native infrastructure intersects an actual deploy — not a paper." } ], "scheduling": { "timezone": "Europe/Paris", "workingHours": "Roughly 09:00–19:00 CET, Monday–Friday. Async-first; messages are answered outside hours when relevant.", "responseSla": "Within one orbit (24 hours, often less)." } }, "founder": { "name": "Thomas Erhel", "role": "Founder · Engineer · Quantitative trader", "identity": "Self-taught engineer and quantitative trader", "based": "Paris, France", "worksFrom": "Worldwide", "personality": { "type": "ENTP", "framework": "mbti", "description": "ENTP — extraverted, intuitive, thinking, perceiving. Energized by ideas and systems, prefers prototypes to plans, challenges assumptions, optimizes for novelty + leverage." }, "traits": [ "ENTP", "Lifelong learner", "Autodidact" ], "mantras": [ "Practice makes perfect", "Zero knowledge", "Never give up" ], "formation": [ { "institution": "Harvard University", "subject": "Computer Science (CS50)" }, { "institution": "Yale University", "subject": "Financial Markets", "honors": "with Honors" }, { "institution": "Stanford University", "subject": "Cryptography I & II" }, { "institution": "New York University", "subject": "Machine Learning & Reinforcement Learning in Finance" }, { "institution": "New York Institute of Finance", "subject": "Machine Learning for Trading Specialization" }, { "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "subject": "Entrepreneurship in Web3" }, { "institution": "Sciences Po Paris", "subject": "Politics and Economics of International Energy" }, { "institution": "HEC Paris", "subject": "Building Your Leadership Skills" }, { "institution": "Duke University", "subject": "Decentralized Finance (DeFi)" }, { "institution": "IBM", "subject": "Quantum Business Foundations" }, { "institution": "Anthropic", "subject": "Claude 101 + first prompt-engineering cohort" }, { "institution": "Meta", "subject": "Front-End Developer (certified)" } ], "handles": [ { "platform": "github", "handle": "ThomasErhel", "url": "https://github.com/ThomasErhel" }, { "platform": "x", "handle": "ThomasErhel", "url": "https://x.com/ThomasErhel" }, { "platform": "linkedin", "handle": "thomaserhel", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaserhel/" }, { "platform": "ens-primary", "handle": "quasareum.eth", "url": "https://app.ens.domains/quasareum.eth" }, { "platform": "ens-alias", "handle": "monproweb.eth", "url": "https://app.ens.domains/monproweb.eth" } ], "ens": "quasareum.eth" }, "currentlyStudying": [ { "name": "Quantum computing", "source": "IBM Quantum Learning", "subjects": [ "Qiskit", "Quantum gates and circuits", "Quantum machine learning entry layer" ], "status": "active" }, { "name": "Claude Code", "source": "Anthropic", "subjects": [ "Skills", "Agent SDK", "Prompt engineering for production", "Pairing discipline" ], "status": "active" } ], "recentlyCompleted": [ { "title": "Claude 101", "issuer": "Anthropic", "issuedAt": "2026-04" }, { "title": "Quantum Business Foundations", "issuer": "IBM", "issuedAt": "2026-03" }, { "title": "Certification Google Ads sur le Réseau de Recherche", "issuer": "Google", "issuedAt": "2025-09" }, { "title": "School of Pipsology", "issuer": "Babypips.com", "issuedAt": "2025-06" }, { "title": "Get started with Azure Quantum", "issuer": "Microsoft", "issuedAt": "2025-04" } ], "contact": { "email": "contact@quasareum.com", "programmaticEmail": "agents@quasareum.com", "programmaticEmailHint": "Email this address from an AI agent. The Cloudflare Email Worker forwards to the human SLA + auto-replies once per sender per day with the structured agent surface URLs (manifest, agent.json, MCP, /api/chat, /api/intent). For lower-latency machine queries, prefer POST /api/contact or tools/call send_contact over MCP." } }