Nicolas Sursock has lived in Paris, France for 25 years, and was born in Beirut, Lebanon (1980). In 1983, his parents went to France, and Nicolas was educated there (EFREI, Telecom ParisTech). Often he spends his time between France, Lebanon, and Switzerland with the occasional trip far away like Los Angeles in 1998 where he studied astronomy. Nicolas is a fan of Apple. He wants to learn Swift and Python after studying C++ and Matlab as his first languages. An enthusiast of object-oriented programming, he also knows how to program in Java. During his work, he also had to deal with SQL databases, XML files, MQSeries messaging, and Unix shell programming. Nicolas also learned Node, Express, Vue, React, Alpine, and Tailwind. He is learning Svelte at the moment.In 2017, Nicolas started a music blog (WordPress and then Ghost). For 3 years, he programmed in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to customize his website. Still, he comes back to his first love which is computers and music. Frustrated with CMSes, he learned webdev to create his own my website from scratch. In 2003, during his final internship, Nicolas successfully ported a sound classification tool from Matlab to C++ at IRCAM. The feature extraction module was translated. Shortly after, Nicolas worked in banking for 7 years and was able to leverage his object-oriented programming skills to do the work. In 2013, he had a short stint at a video company where he used FFmpeg. Nicolas’s values include trust, respect, curiosity, honesty, adaptability, and humor. He believes values can create a vision of the future and prevent nightmares at work. During his career, he wasn’t afraid to work extra hours to meet deadlines and stay on budget. Outside of work, Nicolas likes to hang out in coffee shops, read a book, watch a movie or a documentary, play a game on the computer. You will also meet Nicolas in a restaurant eating his favorite Mediterranean dishes like pasta or Lebanese food. During his career, Nicolas noticed how music touched the souls of people. For example, a song by Frank Zappa, Cosmik Debris tells the story of a psychic guru who can predict the future—prices will fluctuate and someone will fail. Talk about taking a risk in life!