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FelixBesancon/README.md

Félix Besançon - Aspiring Software Developer

Career-switching software developer • Bachelor CDA student • Focused on clean code & real-world projects

📍 Bordeaux, France 🇫🇷 • 📫 Email💼 LinkedIn

🎓 Holberton School Bordeaux student • 👨‍💻 Seeking a work-study opportunity

👋 Welcome to my GitHub

  • Curious and motivated developer
  • Enjoy solving problems and building solutions
  • Focused on clean and structured code
  • Always learning through real-world projects

💫 About me

  • 🎓 Career switcher currently studying Application Design & Development (CDA Bachelor)
  • 💻 Developing full-stack applications through systems programming, backend architecture and real-world projects.
  • 🚀 Actively seeking a work-study opportunity (alternance) in Bordeaux
  • 🧩 I enjoy structured projects, clean architecture and continuous improvement

🎯 Work-study (alternance) search

  • 📍 Looking for a work-study opportunity in software development (alternance)
  • 📅 Starting September / October 2026
  • 🔄 Rhythm: 3 weeks in company / 1 week at school
  • 💼 Bringing motivation, curiosity, and a strong professional background
  • 🚀 Goal: grow within a team, build solid technical skills, and move toward a specialization in Machine Learning

🛠️ Tech stack

Curious about innovation, I'm always learning and exploring new tools through both school projects and personal practice.

+ Markdown, Mermaid, REST APIs, CLI tools, Advanced Excel & VBA


🔭 Currently working on

🎬 CineMood (Solo Full-Stack Project)

  • Building a movie discovery and tracking platform
  • React frontend + FastAPI backend / PostgreSQL database
  • TMDB & MistralAI API integration
  • Mood-based recommendations powered by LLMs
  • Product design, architecture and implementation

🌱 Learning & Exploration

  • Advanced JavaScript & TypeScript
  • API design and backend architecture
  • AI-assisted recommendation systems
  • Docker and deployment workflows

🏅 Certifications

📜 Introduction to Open Source

  • IBM SkillsBuild certification
  • Fundamentals of open source and collaborative development
  • Git & GitHub basics, workflows and version control
  • Introduction to contributing to open source projects

📜 Introduction to Agile

  • IBM SkillsBuild certification
  • Agile values, principles and core practices
  • Team collaboration, workflows and iterative development
  • Applying Agile methods in real-world contexts

🚀 Featured projects

A selection of projects reflecting my progression in system programming and backend development.

Full-stack web application designed to help users discover and track movies based on their mood, preferences and viewing habits.

  • React frontend + FastAPI backend
  • PostgreSQL database
  • Integration with TMDB and Watchmode APIs
  • AI-assisted recommendations using LLMs
  • Mood-based discovery, custom tags and swipe interface
  • Designed and developed as a solo end-of-year project

Focus: product design, API integration, clean architecture and full-stack development.

3rd place project developed during the Bordeaux Métropole Hackathon.

  • Interactive web application focused on urban heat islands and climate resilience
  • Visualization and aggregation of real open-data datasets
  • Interactive map with citizen-driven simulations
  • Next.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma and Leaflet
  • Worked on data integration, visualization and territorial data analysis

Focus: data-driven design, geospatial data, teamwork and rapid prototyping.

Full-stack backend project inspired by Airbnb.

Unix shell written in C.

  • Command execution, process handling, parsing
  • Focus on system programming and memory management

Reimplementation of printf in C.

  • Format parsing, variadic functions
  • Emphasis on modularity and low-level understanding

📊 GitHub Stats



⚡ Interests

Curious by nature, I enjoy creative activities, hands-on work, and understanding how things are made and how they work.

🎮 Gaming & board games • 🎭 Theatre & cinema • 🏸 Sports • 🧶 Craft & creative hobbies • 🧠 Problem solving • 🎨 UI thinking

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  1. holbertonschool-CineMood holbertonschool-CineMood Public

    CinéMood is a personal film diary and AI-powered recommendation web application. Log films, rate them with emotional tags, and get mood-based recommendations filtered by your streaming platforms. B…

    Python

  2. holbertonschool-hbnb holbertonschool-hbnb Public

    Forked from AdeleM-prog/holbertonschool-hbnb

    This repository is a fork of the original HBnB Simple Web Client project. It extends the initial implementation with additional features, improved UI/UX, bug fixes, and optimized interaction with t…

    Python

  3. holbertonschool-simple_shell holbertonschool-simple_shell Public

    C 1

  4. holbertonschool-printf holbertonschool-printf Public

    Creation of printf function in C language

    C

  5. holbertonschool-higher_level_programming holbertonschool-higher_level_programming Public

    Python

  6. holbertonschool-low_level_programming holbertonschool-low_level_programming Public

    Low level programming (C)

    C