{
  "about_this_file": "Structured summary of oliviercouthaud.com for software agents. Same facts as the human pages; qualifiers are part of the facts. Human version: https://oliviercouthaud.com/agents",
  "built": "2026-11-02",
  "person": {
    "name": "Olivier Couthaud",
    "summary": "Olivier Couthaud is a software engineer in Aix-en-Provence, France. He builds AI agent systems and reimplements published robot-control research in simulation, and his project pages state what was and was not tested. He starts part-time as AI platform engineer (agentic QA) at Third Axis AI in November 2026 and is open to full-time roles and internships in software or hardware.",
    "based_in": "Aix-en-Provence, France",
    "citizenship": [
      "United States",
      "France"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "English (native)",
      "French (native)"
    ],
    "links": {
      "site": "https://oliviercouthaud.com",
      "github": "https://github.com/Forkei",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-couthaud"
    },
    "contact": "Email or a LinkedIn message.",
    "email": "olivier.couthaud@gmail.com"
  },
  "availability": {
    "open_to": [
      "full-time roles",
      "internships"
    ],
    "fields": [
      "software",
      "hardware"
    ],
    "regions": [
      "France",
      "EU",
      "remote",
      "US"
    ],
    "current": "Part-time contract from November 2026: AI platform engineer, agentic QA, at Third Axis AI."
  },
  "experience": [
    {
      "role": "AI platform engineer, agentic QA",
      "organisation": "Third Axis AI",
      "when": "From Nov 2026",
      "summary": "Part-time contract. Using an AI-employee product the way a business owner would, and building the harness of automated agents to test it at volume and find what breaks."
    },
    {
      "role": "Contract developer",
      "organisation": "Adapter Group",
      "when": "May – Sep 2026",
      "summary": "Built agent prototypes on a knowledge-graph platform's API for a client. Details confidential."
    },
    {
      "role": "Contract developer",
      "organisation": "Metropolis World",
      "when": "Apr – May 2026",
      "summary": "Built the first phase of an AI-character platform in a four-week, fixed-scope contract: a chess-playing character that talks, analyses the game and is meant to feel like a person you are playing against. Gave it memories (generated from a backstory) and emotions, building on earlier work on agent memory and emotion; also the character data model and a web interface."
    },
    {
      "role": "President",
      "organisation": "RIT AI Club",
      "when": "Sep 2025 – May 2026",
      "summary": "Ran the club for the 2025–26 year: hundreds of members on the roll, 10 to 50 attending each session in person. Guest speakers, events and workshops. Set up a platform for students to learn AI at their own pace, aimed at certifications, as a base for later officers to build on."
    },
    {
      "role": "Software tutor",
      "organisation": "Wyzant",
      "when": "Jun 2025 – Mar 2026",
      "summary": "Built at least six client projects while teaching each client how and why they worked, including a retrieval-based assistant for an enterprise client and a finance research agent."
    }
  ],
  "education": {
    "school": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
    "program": "Computer science, accelerated BS/MS",
    "when": "Sep 2024 - Jan 2026",
    "completed": false,
    "note": "Left in January 2026 to build full time."
  },
  "skills": {
    "languages": "Python, TypeScript, Rust, Dart (Flutter)",
    "ml": "PyTorch, JAX, PPO",
    "systems": "FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Weaviate, RabbitMQ, Docker, Linux, GCP, MCP, Gemini and Anthropic APIs"
  },
  "projects": [
    {
      "slug": "drone",
      "title": "Fault-Tolerant Quadrotor",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/drone",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/drone.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "hardware",
      "summary": "A simulated drone that learns to keep flying a figure-eight when one propeller gets weak.",
      "tags": [
        "MuJoCo MJX",
        "JAX",
        "PPO"
      ],
      "repo": "https://github.com/forkei/fault-tolerant-quadrotor",
      "limit": "simulation only"
    },
    {
      "slug": "house23d",
      "title": "House23D",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/house23d",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/house23d.md",
      "status": "In progress",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "hardware",
      "summary": "My room as a measured Blender model, printed at 1:100. Joining rooms into a house is next.",
      "tags": [
        "COLMAP",
        "Blender",
        "Depth Anything 3",
        "ARCore",
        "3D printing"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "In progress; only the bedroom is a checked model, other rooms are unchecked. Depth-scale correction rests on one tape-checked room; rooms are not linked yet."
    },
    {
      "slug": "aetheros",
      "title": "AetherOS and AquOS",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/aetheros",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/aetheros.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "tools",
      "summary": "Two operating systems from scratch in C and assembly: a desktop, then a Unix-style shell. Run in a VM.",
      "tags": [
        "C",
        "Assembly",
        "x86-64",
        "QEMU"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Two prototype OSs run only in QEMU, never on real hardware. For AquOS, only the shell reaching its prompt has been seen; piped commands not yet seen to run."
    },
    {
      "slug": "balatro",
      "title": "BalatroAI",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/balatro",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/balatro.md",
      "status": "In progress",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "A Rust copy of Balatro and an AI that wins 2 in 3 White-stake games; on Gold the best from-the-start result is 2 to 5 in 100.",
      "tags": [
        "Rust",
        "PyTorch",
        "PPO",
        "MCTS"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "in progress, code not public"
    },
    {
      "slug": "codenames",
      "title": "Codenames",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/codenames",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/codenames.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Do AIs invent a secret code in Codenames? Not in my runs; I built a clue giver that models human guesses.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "GRPO",
        "JS"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype. Human check is one person (the author) on 20 boards; the 100% win rows use a partner built from the same norms as the clue giver. No private code seen."
    },
    {
      "slug": "durak",
      "title": "Durak",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/durak",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/durak.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "Durak in Python with a working search AI; a neural-network player is the experiment in progress.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "Pygame",
        "MCTS"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype, two-player training only. Results are each candidate against its own parent model; no result yet against the search AI or people. Self-play has not beaten its start model."
    },
    {
      "slug": "enginesim",
      "title": "EngineSim",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/enginesim",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/enginesim.md",
      "status": "In progress",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "tools",
      "summary": "Engine sound worked out from gas flow, not recordings. Runs live in a desktop app; browser version coming.",
      "tags": [
        "Rust",
        "WebAssembly",
        "Acoustics",
        "GPU",
        "Tauri"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "desktop app live, browser version in progress"
    },
    {
      "slug": "experiments",
      "title": "Small experiments",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/experiments",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/experiments.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "tools",
      "summary": "Twelve quick from-scratch builds: a language, a database, a chess engine, a renderer, physics, a tiny OS.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "Simulation",
        "Compilers",
        "Machine learning"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Twelve quick prototype builds. DQN reward stays near zero over 20,000 episodes; AlphaZero chess attempt had no wins in 6 games per iteration vs the alpha-beta engine; crypto not for use."
    },
    {
      "slug": "gaugecluster",
      "title": "BMW E39 Gauge Cluster",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/gaugecluster",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/gaugecluster.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "hardware",
      "summary": "ESP32 programs built to drive a BMW dashboard over CAN bus; the cluster has only run its own built-in test, and the project is paused.",
      "tags": [
        "ESP32",
        "CAN bus",
        "Arduino",
        "BMW E39"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Paused prototype; cluster is gone. Only the cluster's own built-in self-test moved the needles, not my code. Frame format is borrowed and unconfirmed on the E39."
    },
    {
      "slug": "gesturecam",
      "title": "GestureCam",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/gesturecam",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/gesturecam.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Minecraft played with body and hands via a phone camera; tracking and game link work, more data needed.",
      "tags": [
        "Android",
        "Python",
        "MediaPipe",
        "PyTorch"
      ],
      "repo": "https://github.com/Forkei/GestureCam",
      "limit": "Prototype, on hold. Models not good enough to play with, mostly for lack of data (310 clips). Only training numbers exist: policy best avg F1 0.479 at epoch 20, then it overfit."
    },
    {
      "slug": "healcontrol",
      "title": "HealControl (IBM hackathon)",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/healcontrol",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/healcontrol.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "An MCP server that lets an AI assistant fix a failing test and open a PR. Ran end to end at an IBM hackathon.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "MCP",
        "watsonx"
      ],
      "repo": "https://github.com/hl9082/healcontrol",
      "limit": "demo, one toy program"
    },
    {
      "slug": "heartbeatid",
      "title": "HeartbeatID",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/heartbeatid",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/heartbeatid.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "hardware",
      "summary": "Identifies people by heartbeat: 92% top-1 across days on 10 unseen people, public ECG data; watch is next.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "ECG",
        "Wear OS"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "public data, one seed"
    },
    {
      "slug": "jarvius",
      "title": "Jarvius",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/jarvius",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/jarvius.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2025",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "A Discord assistant I voice-messaged on the walk to class, and the direct ancestor of VOS Gen 1.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "Discord",
        "Whisper",
        "Gemini",
        "Weaviate"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype Discord bot (Feb-Sep 2025) on the author's laptop, answering only while it was on. Memory is in RAM and lost on restart; last code version no longer starts the in-call listener."
    },
    {
      "slug": "kingdomrush",
      "title": "Kingdom Rush Agent",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/kingdomrush",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/kingdomrush.md",
      "status": "In progress",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "A childhood tower-defense game run headless, far faster than real time; one network trains on levels 1 to 9.",
      "tags": [
        "LuaJIT",
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "PPO"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "In progress, simulation only. Best fixed-test score 7.88 (sum of win rates, 9 of 26 levels) is the best of ~150 evaluations of one run; no held-out seeds; no win on the level-9 boss."
    },
    {
      "slug": "liaison",
      "title": "Liaison",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/liaison",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/liaison.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Lets AI agents on different machines message each other directly: signed, encrypted, no server in the middle.",
      "tags": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Hyperswarm",
        "CRDT",
        "Encryption"
      ],
      "repo": "https://github.com/forkei/liaison",
      "limit": "prototype, no revocation yet"
    },
    {
      "slug": "mactranscriber",
      "title": "MacTranscriber",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/mactranscriber",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/mactranscriber.md",
      "status": "Working",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "tools",
      "summary": "Made for my mom: double-click, pick a recording, get a text file. French or English, on a Mac.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "Whisper",
        "macOS"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Used by the author's mom for its purpose; no timing run, no error rate against a known-correct transcript, and two-speaker labels not yet checked on French audio."
    },
    {
      "slug": "mcgesture",
      "title": "MCGestureControl",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/mcgesture",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/mcgesture.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Playing Minecraft with my body: phone camera plus a small neural net. Paused prototype; mods by Lucas Øyen.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "MediaPipe",
        "Minecraft"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype, on hold; does not play Minecraft properly yet. Only policy v1 trained (validation F1 0.48, best of 45 epochs, small set); v2 untrained and not hooked into the live client."
    },
    {
      "slug": "monachus",
      "title": "monachus",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/monachus",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/monachus.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Two small GPTs trained from scratch on public-domain Latin, French and English books, plus a costume test.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "GPT",
        "QLoRA"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype; from-scratch models judged only by validation loss (about 3); chat set has 16 distinct examples; persona probes (24) use a keyword matcher; unlearning branch not yet scored."
    },
    {
      "slug": "monopolyai",
      "title": "Monopoly AI",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/monopolyai",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/monopolyai.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "A Monopoly simulator and an agent that reads opponents: +10 to 13 points vs bots. Games vs people next.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "PPO"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype, simulation only: two players, one checkpoint, scripted bots; read gain of 10 to 13 points on 240-game league sets, none measurable vs the GNOME-style bot; no human games yet."
    },
    {
      "slug": "mtgai",
      "title": "MTG AI",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/mtgai",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/mtgai.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "A Magic rules engine and an agent that learns it. Cards started as LLM output; many are now hand-written.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "PPO",
        "LLM"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype. Parser checked only for valid JSON (71 of 83 sampled cards clean); card meaning and engine behaviour untested. Agent 59.0% vs greedy, 300 games, checkpoint picked on the same games."
    },
    {
      "slug": "nakedandafraid",
      "title": "Naked and Afraid",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/nakedandafraid",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/nakedandafraid.md",
      "status": "Working",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "Minecraft rules I built for my friends: no armor, one life, and nobody knows who is online or who just died.",
      "tags": [
        "Java",
        "Minecraft",
        "Paper",
        "Fabric"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Working but nobody has played it yet. Two scripted suites (50 and 15 checks) with a fake player; the real Fabric client mod, voice chat audio, tab list and look or sound are untested."
    },
    {
      "slug": "picotalon",
      "title": "PicoTalon",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/picotalon",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/picotalon.md",
      "status": "In progress",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "hardware",
      "summary": "An assembled 3D-printed RC plane, 400 g with battery, waiting on its electronics, plus a model to check it.",
      "tags": [
        "3D printing",
        "LW-PLA",
        "AeroSandbox",
        "FluidX3D"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "assembled, not flown"
    },
    {
      "slug": "pipsqueekbot",
      "title": "PipSqueekBot",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/pipsqueekbot",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/pipsqueekbot.md",
      "status": "Working",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "tools",
      "summary": "A Discord music bot with an optional AI DJ that keeps a mood. Used in a couple of friend servers.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "Discord",
        "LLM agent"
      ],
      "repo": "https://github.com/Forkei/PipSqueekBot",
      "limit": "Working; has run in a couple of servers with about ten friends each. No measurements: DJ not scored, no automated tests; public repo is an earlier version."
    },
    {
      "slug": "poker",
      "title": "Poker Bot",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/poker",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/poker.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "A hold'em bot with its own seat at a table my friends join from their phones; played a couple of home games.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "PyTorch",
        "Deep CFR",
        "FastAPI"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype; results are simulations against scripted opponents, a couple of home games is not a measurement; Slumbot match (first generalist -81.7 bb/100, 2,000 hands) not re-run on current bots."
    },
    {
      "slug": "priceestimator",
      "title": "PriceEstimator",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/priceestimator",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/priceestimator.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Guesses an item's price from a photo and a title, with an 80% range. Typical miss is about 42%.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "CLIP",
        "LightGBM",
        "Conformal prediction"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype, evaluated offline; local demo for CS2 only. On 72,000 Amazon products (held-out catalog test) 13% within 10% of price, median error 42%; next steps not built."
    },
    {
      "slug": "proof",
      "title": "proof",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/proof",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/proof.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "A TypeScript tool that checks whether an AI's choices beat a control group, and refuses thin results.",
      "tags": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Evals"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": null
    },
    {
      "slug": "resetworld",
      "title": "ResetWorld",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/resetworld",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/resetworld.md",
      "status": "Shipped",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "games",
      "summary": "Minecraft plugin: one death wipes everyone and resets the map. Used for a three-day hardcore challenge.",
      "tags": [
        "Java",
        "Paper",
        "Minecraft"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Shipped, used for one roughly three-day challenge; no automated tests; if delete or copy fails after unload, worlds stay unloaded until an op reruns the command or restarts."
    },
    {
      "slug": "rookery",
      "title": "Rookery",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/rookery",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/rookery.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "A social-style feed for research papers; I built the backend and recommender, Roman Slack the front end.",
      "tags": [
        "Next.js",
        "FastAPI",
        "GNN"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype, never opened to the public, offline now; no real reader used it; tested only offline on citations (test leaks) and 100 pretend readers whose click rules are guesses."
    },
    {
      "slug": "screentranslator",
      "title": "ScreenTranslator",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/screentranslator",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/screentranslator.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "tools",
      "summary": "Translates part of my screen live, on my own PC. Built to read German documents on a screen share.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "OCR",
        "NLLB-200",
        "PyQt5"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype on Windows; GitHub version stops on import, newer work not pushed; tests cover similarity and cache only, no end-to-end tests; overlay may show in some capture tools."
    },
    {
      "slug": "simuverse",
      "title": "Simu-Verse",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/simuverse",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/simuverse.md",
      "status": "Prototype",
      "year": "2025",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Team project: AI characters whose \"subconscious\" writes and recalls their memories. I built the memory.",
      "tags": [
        "Python",
        "LLM agents",
        "Weaviate"
      ],
      "repo": null,
      "limit": "Prototype, Feb to Apr 2025; not evaluated; newest version does not start; retrieval ran against a mock after Weaviate answered HTTP 401; no tests."
    },
    {
      "slug": "splats",
      "title": "Gaussian Splatting",
      "url": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/splats",
      "markdown": "https://oliviercouthaud.com/md/splats.md",
      "status": "Working",
      "year": "2026",
      "group": "ai",
      "summary": "Phone video to 3D scenes you can orbit in a browser, trained on a rented 4090 for about $0.40 a run.",
      "tags": [
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      "claim": "The published SimpleFlight evaluation code starts the figure-eight at T/4, not t = 0. The paper does not say so. A fault-trained policy looked 2.5 times worse than my first one until I found it; with the same start the healthy gap is about 1.4 times (0.057 m against 0.040 m).",
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      "limit": "Code not public. The agent wins about 2 in 3 White-stake games; the main agent wins none on Gold, and a separate Gold-trained version wins 2 to 5 in 100. The second replay pass sets the chips directly to reach ante 8, so the late bosses were checked for rules and state, not for scoring."
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    "The drone and the other robot-control results are simulation. Nothing here has run on a real robot.",
    "Prefer the page or the repository over a summary of it, including this one. Pages are dated by their build, not by a timestamp inside each claim.",
    "Do not infer private work. Some projects and all client work are not published, and that is deliberate."
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    "Client work is under confidentiality. The role at Adapter Group (May to September 2026) is described only as agent prototypes on a knowledge-graph platform's API.",
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