Émilien Lavallée's blog

Hey, what's up, I'm Émilien, 17, currently an incoming SWE intern at Botpress.

I'm also an incoming mechatronics student at the University of Waterloo.

Please, have a look!

recent posts

openset [2026-05-27]

A REAL PRODUCTION PROJECT

OpenSet is a full-stack platform I developed with my friend over the course of about three months (June-August 2025). I'm writing this now as the official end of the project. OpenSet was born out of f…


summer of math exposition 4 [2025-08-26]

THE CRAZIEST TECHNOLOGY YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a novel encryption method first developed in 2009 by Dr. Craig Gentry. FHE allows arbitrary computation on encrypted data. Think, an AI model provider that can't …


corne keyboard [2024-12-01]

MY NEW ERGONOMIC OBSESSION

My latest ergonomic build (December 2024)! This is the Corne keyboard. And I think this one is the one. The design is super clean, the keys feels super nice and the 50% layout is perfect. Everything i…


epoxy table [2024-08-20]

BUILDING PHYSICAL STUFF IS FUN

Here is a small epoxy resin table I built with my aunt. I've always been fascinated with the transparent material and the idea of casting objects inside of it. When my aunt offered to help me build on…


summer of math exposition π [2024-08-16]

EXPLORING RELATIONAL ALGEBRA

In the summer of 2024, my friend Torge and I participated in the Summer of Math Exposition Pi edition. This is a math explainer contest. We used the awesome Manim CE library to explain E. F. Codd's re…


dactyl skeletyl keyboard [2024-08-01]

BUILDING A KEYBOARD

In August 2024, I built the Bastard Dactyl Skeletyl, a split ergonomic, curved mechanical keyboard. This entire keyboard is open source: I 3D printed the case with my FDM printer, and I got the keys p…