Alexandre Trotel
I'm a founder and full-stack engineer.
Work
During my free time, I work on Zap Studio, an open-source project where I build type-safe and composable TypeScript libraries that work on any runtime. I made 16 packages with zero dependencies and 7,000+ downloads per month. This mainly comes from my experience fighting with JavaScript and legacy code.
At the same time, I co-founded Radion as CTO. We built a real-time and historical data platform for prediction markets to help traders make better decisions. We ingested 8 billion Polymarket events in under two days and served them at 70ms p95 on a Rust multi-threaded API.
Before Radion, I was a full-stack engineer intern and freelancer at ALLOHOUSTON. There, I wrote a conflict resolution algorithm that kept our database in sync with a client's CRM without losing local state. I also built an end-to-end OCR pipeline to scan and process information from critical documents to score their validity against public and private databases.
Before all of that, during my studies, I co-founded Mindify as CTO. It was a startup focused on empowering individuals by helping them discover new topics and change their day-to-day life. I built and shipped a web and mobile app with 1,000+ downloads.
Around the same time, I interned at SiBorg as a full-stack engineer and won The Graph Prize at the Coinbase Onchain Summer hackathon.
It all started with my first startup TrotelCoin, a web3 project to help students and non-technical users learn about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. I developed more than 10 Solidity contracts and reached more than 200 users.
In parallel, I was vice president of N7 Consulting, where I led a team of 26 and generated €100K in revenue. I was mainly doing strategy, operations, sales, management and optimizing processes.
Projects
I also maintain developer tools, mostly written in Rust:
- todo-tree finds every TODO comment in a codebase.
- dotfiles-manager keeps dotfiles consistent across machines with profiles.
- feedyourai packs a codebase into one file for LLM context.
Hobbies
I'm interested in ML/AI, web3 and open-source software. I also write essays about software engineering and startups.
In my free time, I like to read books on topics such as science, economy, psychology and philosophy. I also run 20-30 km per week, play badminton and do street workouts.
I play the piano and make EDM music on FL Studio. I also started playing curated video games.
I also create social media content to vulgarize what I learn daily. I have more than 10k followers on Instagram.