{"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 agrégate keeps it visible.","evidence":["monproweb"],"reinforces":["Production or it did not happen"]},{"period":"2026","headline":"Quantum finance + AI-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"]}]}