{
  "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, Sophrea, Quasareum itself. The signal of \"studio is shipping\" becomes private; the contribution count agrégate keeps it visible.",
      "evidence": [
        "monproweb"
      ],
      "reinforces": [
        "Production or it did not happen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "period": "2026",
      "headline": "Quantum finance + Claude-native engineering",
      "body": "`quantum-finance-research` — public research surface for the quantum-on-markets thesis. Active study with IBM Quantum Learning. 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": [
        "quantum-finance-research"
      ],
      "reinforces": [
        "Paradigm shift, anticipated",
        "Lifelong learner — never stop studying"
      ]
    },
    {
      "period": "continuous",
      "headline": "6 165 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"
      ]
    }
  ]
}