Sylvain is driven by a thirst for learning and progress, both in his personal and professional life. This is a driving force in the success of his mission. He works on Mallya’s embedded software; his role is to participate in the understanding and translation of the functional needs of the product into a documented technical version, as well as to the technical implementation and verification… To imagine and propose solutions, implement product features, build solutions together and make pre-requisites possible: this is his greatest satisfaction on a daily basis.
He is very attentive to listening to other people, to the market or to technologies related to his expertise. Curiosity – in the noble sense of the term – is thus a major component of his job because it is essential for him to be attentive to changes to move forward. This requires a lot of adaptability since one must succeed in adopting the novelties and taking ownership of language developments. Finally, an important point of his job is the exchange since a project is structured around a set of collaborators. He recognizes that he’s lucky to be part of a team that manages to circulate ideas, enriching themselves with the gray matter of others…
He strongly advises young recruits not to hesitate to share their problems instead of being stuck on their own. And one of the foundations for progress is, according to him, to work on personal projects of programming: it seems to be the best mode of learning since it requires to stay informed of the permanent evolutions via an organized monitoring, and to adapt permanently.
Sylvain would be curious to talk to Travis Pastrana, an American motorsport rider and former world freestyle motocross champion, to find out what drove this man to try and win a double motocross backflip, for the first time in the world in 2006. Was it only a crazy bet of a teenager or the result of a series of precise calculations and meticulous preparation upstream? Anyway, his career is impressive…