About me

I’m Elie, a software architect with 10+ years building backends and clean systems.

These days I freelance on MCP & agentic engineering: I help companies ship AI features that hold up in production, and get their teams genuinely productive with agentic coding.

At a glance

Now: freelancing on MCP servers, agentic LLM workflows, and agentic-coding adoption for engineering teams. Also building Flares, an AI product.
Recently: led on AI at Claap (acquired by Lemlist), reworking its AI assistant, extending its MCP server, and moving the whole team onto Claude Code.
Before: technical co-founder. Bootstrapped a fintech SaaS from zero and sold it. A decade across dev, architecture, and team lead.
Writing & open source: on agentic coding since 2025 (one post hit #1 on Hacker News); I build open-source tools like MCP-Pointer.
Off-screen: long-distance paragliding over the Massif Central. Personal best: 162 km in one flight. 🪂
For fun: I read the Claude Code changelog several times a week. (Yes, really.)

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More about me: how I got here, and why this blog

I've spent a decade in software: developer, architect, team lead, technical co-founder. I bootstrapped a fintech startup in France, took it from idea to product, and eventually sold it. Most recently I was the senior engineer leading on AI at Claap (acquired by Lemlist), where I led the AI work (the assistant, the MCP server, agentic workflows) and helped the whole team move to agentic coding.

Like many, I caught the agentic-coding shift: guiding AIs on the implementation while I focus on what actually matters: architecture, abstractions, naming. We think; they type. Rather than diminishing the craft, it amplifies it for anyone who loves designing systems.

I've been writing here since mid-2025, early in that shift. No tutorials. Just honest takes on building with AI as a partner, the tools moving fastest, and the agentic-coding philosophy reshaping how we build software and products.

And when I'm not coding, I'm flying. Long cross-country flights are a reminder that patience and flow matter as much in the air as in code.

Paragliding over Lake Annecy in the French Alps. Closing a 6-hour+ triangle flight over Lake Annecy, in the French Alps. 🪂