Software architect · Paris · Since 1989
An internet access service over BBS in 1989. Visual Dialogscript in 1995, used by the UN, HP Palo Alto, IBM and BP Oil. The largest multi-carrier datacenter in the Midi-Pyrénées region in 2003. Today, I build sharp software for solo entrepreneurs and for organizations that can't stand bloat.
Journey — a few milestones
A passion that goes back to my late teens — first steps on a ZX Spectrum in the early '80s — but professional work begins in 1989. Not a linear success story; a path that zigzags between live entertainment, film, datacenters and programming languages. The common thread: having something to say, and the will to reach the destination.
“An Agile approach long before the concept and its methods (SCRUM) were invented… For me, results come before method.”
Manifesto
Too many modern programmers are fixated on the skills they have acquired rather than on understanding people and their trades. The result: interfaces designed by them, mostly for them, and rarely for real users. That is the root of most frustrating software.
I design the other way round. The business first, the user next, the code last — in service of both.
Languages matter little to me — they are all fit for purpose. I don't yield to the pressure of trends that shift as aimlessly as the weather. I favor stacks that are lightweight, anti-bloatware, sharp and efficient.
What counts is the idea. And power still belongs, now as ever, to imagination.
“There are many ways of seeing the world.
There are many languages.
Almost everything can be boiled down to strings…”
Whatever the language, you need something to say and the skill to say it. Of all the possible paths, the best one is the one that gets you there.
On the web · a note
I have been building websites since HTML was invented — 1994. My first domain was sade.net. Today it belongs to SADE INVEST GROUP, my current holding company, but that is where it all began.
Always the same anti-bloatware philosophy: I carefully avoided PageMaker, CoffeeCup, Word and the other generators that spat out proprietary HTML stuffed with useless tags. At a time when head programmers at large organizations called me in to fix HTML bugs they could no longer diagnose — their tools had weaned them off reading code — I would open their file in Notepad. Simple as that.
Today, I use AI. But under control. It speeds things up, it suggests, it debugs. It does not decide for me. I review every line, I make every call — because a good tool is still just a tool, and the imagination remains that of the human holding it.
“They had tools.
I had Notepad. My code worked.”
This very site: hand-written HTML/CSS, two Google typefaces, thirty lines of JavaScript. No framework, no build step, no tracker. It had to stay consistent.
What I build
Not a frozen catalog. A suite of tools I build and keep alive, some for my own companies, others for my clients. Each line below is an ongoing story.
Under the SADE brand since 1998, under V-Softs today — it is the same hand writing the code. Twenty-eight years of continuity, no opportunistic pivots, no framework of the month.
Client work · live sites
A few public examples. The stack reflects either the client's choice or the best fit for the project — pure HTML when that is enough, an ultra-fast proprietary CMS when the client needs muscle, WordPress when the client insists. I adapt without betraying the philosophy: not one of these sites carries the weight of a run-of-the-mill website.
And plenty of others — WordPress imposed by some clients, short-lived sites, event showcases. All shared the same guiding principle: deliver without bloatware.
Work together
I don't sell "services". I commit to a handful of organizations at a time, as an architect or as a technical right hand. The rule is simple: a human understands your business before a single line of code is written. Agile long before the method was invented — results come before method.
We talk. Not a bullet-point brief, but a real conversation: what you really want, what is blocking you, what could unlock everything else.
I propose a short path. Not an 18-month roadmap, but a deliverable that changes something within the first few weeks. Anti-bloatware, by default.
We iterate on reality — your users, your business — not on a frozen specification. I stay reachable, I decide fast, and you own everything.
Build together
No 12-field form. Three lines to tell me who you are and what you would like to see exist. I reply within 48 hours.
No cold calls. No newsletter. No ad pixels.