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Systems & Security · Low-Level · AI
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Hello! I'm Francois, an Honors computer science student focusing on systems programming and security engineering.
Outside of work + school + personal projects, I also contribute to open source! See here :)
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Software Engineer Intern @ IBM
Jan 2026 - Present -
AI Engineer @ UAIS
Oct 2025 - Dec 2025 -
Security Engineer @ Blueprint
Oct 2025 - Dec 2025
open source
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cilium/cilium #47497
Fixed an agent crash/restart loop caused by router IP allocation racing operator CIDR pool provisioning.
Go Cilium Kubernetes IPAM networking -
falcosecurity/falcosidekick #1303
Fixed typo in README.
Docs -
MacKenzieLuong/sparkle #2
Calibrated turns by using a rotational budget.
Python Robotics -
UndergraduateArtificialIntelligenceClub/Clubmate-AI #19
Added unit and integration test suite.
Testing Python -
t9nzin/datascale #4
Contribution to datascale project.
Open Source
inventory
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KernelHarbor
Linux kernel security monitoring with eBPF and AI-powered threat detection analysis. Built in collaboration with engineers from TrendAI and AMD
Go C eBPF security AI -
MEFSC
Multithreaded encrypted file server/client with ChaChaPoly1305 AEAD encryption, SQLite auth, and Tailscale compatibility.
C++ encryption filesystem security -
Steganography_Suite
Desktop GUI steganography tool with AES-256 GCM encryption for hiding secrets in image files.
Rust cybersecurity steganography encryption
hackathons
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datascale -- Hack Canada Winner
AI-assisted dataset annotation platform that runs entirely within your Tailnet for private team collaboration.
TypeScript AI tailnet annotation 2026 -
Hack The North
University of Waterloo's hackathon (the biggest one in Canada)
Hack The North Waterloo 2026 -
HackMIT -- Accepted
MIT's flagship hackathon is one of the top collegiate hackathons in the world... But unfortunately I'm not going because dates conflict with Hack The North :/ maybe next year!
HackMIT Cambridge MIT 2026
comms
Like a
void*, I'm unbound, cast to my desires
They tell me I'm achar*, but I reach even higherCast myself an
int*, reinterpret the entire
I'll read beyond what's set, I'll be what I aspire
Thanks for reading, and before you go, remember you're a void* too :)