About me

I’m Jérôme de Courval, a Canadian developer, graduated in computer engineering. I’ve done many things, stm32, linux, robotics, ai, voip, db, network, security. Have a look at my LinkedIn and GitHub, or the articles posted here for more details.

Articles

Optimizing Linux for an AMD Xiaomi Laptop

Projects

chef-ai

Transformer based large language model finetuned as a cooking assistant on my own dataset.
https://huggingface.co/jdecourval/chef-ai

The whole training pipeline runs just tight in 24GB VRAM and takes a few days to complete on my single AMD RX 7900 XTX. I uploaded the resulting model, included GGUF quantized weights to huggingface:
https://huggingface.co/jdecourval/chef-ai

remote-fs

A remote file system based on fuse that leverages io_uring, SCTP, C++23 and multiple tricks and hacks to reach good performance.
https://github.com/jdecourval/remote-fs

LAVAL-computer

I invented a CPU architecture and wrote a ISA, manual, assembler, and simulator for it as a challenge for the participants of the CSGames. The CPU is designed around a massively parallel architecture, where algorithms using simple instructions having very local data access patterns are favoured.
https://github.com/jdecourval/laval-simulator