{"journey":[{"period":"2016","headline":"Joined GitHub","body":"Account opened on github.com/ThomasErhel. Almost a decade of presence on the platform. Quasareum's GitHub footprint has been compounding since.","reinforces":["Lifelong learner — never stop studying"]},{"period":"2019–2020","headline":"Early ML and frontend exploration + Gitcoin community","body":"First public GitHub artifacts — `ubuntu-rain`, `ml5-sentiment`. ML5.js when most of the web was still asleep on browser-side ML. In parallel: present at ETHDenver 2019 (Dj Chill Room Kudos on-chain), receiving React Reactor proficiency Kudos for past project work, and active in the Gitcoin community on Gnosis Chain — peer Kudos exchanges, Bot Summer 2021, Polkadot×Gitcoin integration milestone (all timestamped on-chain). Curiosity ahead of the curve, well before \"AI engineer\" was a job title and well before grants funding became mainstream.","evidence":["ubuntu-rain","ml5-sentiment","gitcoin-kudos-react-reactor","gitcoin-kudos-ethdenver-2019","gitcoin-kudos-polkadot-helloworld","gitcoin-kudos-cluster"],"reinforces":["Eternal beginner — Socratic posture","No custodial anything"]},{"period":"2021","headline":"FreeCodeCamp full curriculum + Blockchain Developer Bootcamp","body":"Six FreeCodeCamp certifications taken end to end (responsive web design, JS algorithms, front-end libs, data viz, APIs/microservices, info security). In parallel: Blockchain Developer Bootcamp + Flutter cross-platform exercises. Self-taught at full throttle. Each repo is one exercise — the *count* is the signal, not any single one.","evidence":["Blockchain-Developer-Bootcamp","secure-real-time-multiplayer-game","SHA-1-password-cracker","port-scanner","anonymous-message-board","stockchecker","bmi_calculator_flutter","quizzler_flutter"],"reinforces":["Practice makes perfect","Never give up"]},{"period":"2022–2023","headline":"Smart contract security run + buildspace cohorts + personal media","body":"Defining season. **Ranked #46 of 7 853 players on Ethernaut by OpenZeppelin (Goerli)** — top 0.6% globally, 29/30 levels solved, alias monproweb.eth recorded in OpenZeppelin's public aliases.json. Ethernaut is the canonical Solidity-security wargame; reaching that level requires actually breaking contracts, not just reading about them. In parallel: buildspace cohorts — \"Intro to Web3\" (Cohort Vega #65) + \"Build a domain service on Polygon\" (Cohort Intan #9, early) + pointer.gg \"Solid Solidity\" — all minted on-chain as ERC721 completion proofs on Polygon. Personal media: `dev-wisdom-daily` (Python content engine, 9 stars), `blog-mpw`, `docs-mpw`. Web3 experiments: `escrow-hardhat`, `erc20-indexer`, `rocketpool`, `threads-spark`. Stack moves toward Solidity + indexing + the social layer.","evidence":["dev-wisdom-daily","blog-mpw","docs-mpw","escrow-hardhat","erc20-indexer","rocketpool","threads-spark","ethernaut-oz-goerli-top-0.6-percent","buildspace-web3-app-cohort-vega","buildspace-ens-on-polygon-cohort-intan","pointer-solid-solidity-finisher"],"reinforces":["Animated by creation and growth","Practice makes perfect","Eternal beginner — Socratic posture"]},{"period":"2023–2024","headline":"EigenLayer / restaking + Linea early ecosystem","body":"`eigenlayer-operator` — operator infra for restaking. On the frontier when most of crypto was still digesting the idea. In parallel: early-user activity on Linea (ConsenSys L2) during its 2023-2024 rollout — 8 Aspecta Builders Achievement tokens accumulated as on-chain reputation, plus ~12 ecosystem participation NFTs (Linea Voyage, Linea Park, Tanuki, Yooldo, Foxy, GenesisOAT, Pictographs, etc.). The pattern repeats: present at the rollout, not after the consensus.","evidence":["eigenlayer-operator","aspecta-builders-achievement-cluster","linea-voyage-ecosystem-cluster","polygon-zkevm-scale-documentary"],"reinforces":["Paradigm shift, anticipated"]},{"period":"2025","headline":"TypeScript + studio formation","body":"`monproweb` (TypeScript). Quasareum founded as a studio. Public personal repos go quiet because the work moves into private studio repos under the QuasareumGroup org — PerpLog, Amav Sophro, Sophria, Quasareum itself. The signal of \"studio is shipping\" becomes private; the contribution count aggregate keeps it visible.","evidence":["monproweb"],"reinforces":["Production or it did not happen"]},{"period":"2026","headline":"Published research + AI-native engineering","body":"`hyperliquid-microstructure` — public empirical research on on-chain perpetual futures, with Hyperliquid as the substrate: pre-registered experiments, estimators validated against known answers, retractions kept in the open, adversarial review before publication. Quantum finance stays under active study with IBM Quantum Learning, and returns to the published record when there is something to claim. In parallel: Anthropic Claude Code as a peer engineer in the production loop. The two converge into the present-day Quasareum surface — this very site.","evidence":["hyperliquid-microstructure"],"reinforces":["Paradigm shift, anticipated","Lifelong learner — never stop studying"]},{"period":"continuous","headline":"6,000+ stars given (and counting)","body":"Across 10 years, more than six thousand public repositories starred. 99th-percentile reading volume on GitHub. Stars are free and you get nothing back — doing it 6 000+ times means genuine curiosity and genuine support for the work. The starred list is a real-time index of what catches Thomas's attention, refreshed every week.","reinforces":["Eternal beginner — Socratic posture","Lifelong learner — never stop studying"]},{"period":"recurring","headline":"Seasonal sprints — intensive multi-week curricula","body":"The certification record reveals a recurring pattern: every 12-18 months, Thomas runs a focused multi-week sprint through a specific domain. Sept-Dec 2021: 24 GCP certs (Architect prep + Kubernetes + Terraform + serverless). Aug 2022: blockchain blitz (Stanford, Berkeley, Buffalo, Consensys, buildspace, pointer.gg). Sept-Nov 2022: cross-disciplinary university blitz (Harvard CS50, Sciences Po, McMaster, HEC Paris, Erasmus, Lund, Michigan, Duke). Aug-Sept 2024: finance trinity (Yale Honors, NYU ML/RL, NYIF ML for Trading). 2026: AI/quantum sprint (Anthropic Claude 101, IBM Quantum Business Foundations). The shape is purposeful seasons, not background trickle.","reinforces":["Lifelong learner — never stop studying","Practice makes perfect"]}]}