Mathieu Roy
Senior Researcher at Canadian Journal of African Studies
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolMathieu Roy is a Senior Researcher and software developer based in Paris with nine years of experience at the intersection of African studies, publishing, and blockchain-enabled software. He holds a PhD in Kiswahili and has built a unique career that blends classical Swahili poetry and manuscript scholarship with hands-on Java and JavaScript development, smart contract work in Solidity, and DevOps/cloud skills. As a founding member and current senior researcher at DL2A, he leads cross-cultural acquisition, editing and digital publication of African-language works while building databases and applications to preserve and distribute marginalized literary archives. He has applied blockchain expertise to token and private-chain projects and brings practical product experience from startups like TOKEO and H64 alongside academic reviewer roles for major Swahili journals. Comfortable switching between fieldwork in East Africa and full-stack technical delivery, he combines linguistic depth with ethical, entrepreneurial publishing practices. An uncommon thread in his profile is fluency across ancient biblical Greek, Amharic and Kiswahili studies, which informs his archival and computational approaches to language preservation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG B, Biology - Biochemistry, DEUG B, Biology - Biochemistry at Université Paris-Est CréteilCertificat de spécialisation (CS) de niveau 5 (European Qualifications Framework), DevOps, Computer Networks, Certificat de spécialisation (CS) de niveau 5 (European Qualifications Framework), DevOps, Computer Networks at Centre d'Etudes supérieures industriellesLicence, Philosophy, Licence, Philosophy at University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonneBaccalauréat, Série D - Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Baccalauréat, Série D - Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Lycée Eugène DelacroixDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Doctorat, African Studies / Kiswahili, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Doctorat, African Studies / Kiswahili at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)Grec biblique niveau avancé, Langue et littérature grecques anciennes / classiques, Grec biblique niveau avancé, Langue et littérature grecques anciennes / classiques at University of StrasbourgBachelor, Computer Sciences, Bachelor, Computer Sciences at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam
French, Kiswahili, English, German, Amharic, grec, ancien (jusqu’en 1453), Arabic, Latin
Github Skills (3)
azure7
microsoft5
microsoft-azure5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Mawazoni/KiswahiliModuleNooJ
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
Mawazoni/testsPython
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
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