Anthony Mauclair

Most of what I know comes from running real things: servers with players on them, an app with paying subscribers, teams with actual people in them. StrikeMC taught me Java, Linux, DDoS mitigation, and how to lead a staff of thirty while I was still in school. GrillTask taught me to ship a full product alone, from the data model to the Stripe webhook. ARISE is teaching me what technology looks like when the users are volunteers and the bottom line is measured in people reached.

I do not think of myself as only an engineer. Every project I have run was a small business before it was a codebase: someone has to set the price, watch the costs, find the users, and decide what is actually worth building next. On GrillTask that meant choosing three tiers and defending what belongs in each one. On StrikeMC it meant a store that paid for the hardware. I like that work as much as the code, which is why I want to start companies rather than only work at them.

Day to day I work in Java and the React Native, Firebase, and Stripe stack, on Linux boxes I manage myself. I build with AI-assisted workflows, mostly Claude Code, which lets a solo founder move like a small team without lowering the bar for what ships. I care a lot about the unglamorous parts: security rules, timezone handling, cache busting, and the emails a product sends when nobody is watching.

The other half of my time is creative. I produce future bounce in FL Studio, play piano by ear, DJ school events on Rekordbox and Serato, and spent six years editing video professionally, first in Premiere and After Effects, now in DaVinci Resolve. I speak English and French natively and I am learning Spanish.

I am an IB Diploma student in Singapore, Class of 2027, studying computer science and business. The long-term goal is simple: build AI-native companies that solve unglamorous, real problems, and run them well.