Racine Pilote

From painting to code.

My journey reads best as a commit history. Oldest to newest, no rewriting history.

$ git log --reverse --oneline racine

  1. a7f3e21 (studio)

    The artist first

    I started in the visual arts. Graphic design, photography, sculpture, painting. I spent about three and a half years as a photographer and graphic designer. I made a living with my eyes and my hands.

  2. c0de017 (school)

    The code click

    Then something clicked. I put down the brushes for a keyboard, by choice. Back to school: a programmer-analyst diploma (AEC) at Collège de Rosemont. Graduated in 2017, with honours.

    « I went back to school at an age when most people stop daring to. Best decision of my life. »

  3. 4f9b2d0 (full-stack)

    First real job

    Full-stack developer at Publitech. PHP 7, Laravel, Symfony, Angular. I learned to ship for real, with real clients waiting on the other end.

  4. 9e1a7c3 (architecture)

    Seven years at Attestra

    Programmer-analyst, then web architect. Planning, design, testing, implementation: I’ve covered the full life of web applications. I design systems that need to last for years, and that changes how you write code.

  5. f00d2b6 (radiko)

    Radiko

    I founded Radiko, my agency. Websites and AI integration for small businesses on Montreal’s South Shore. The kind of client who deserves a partner who calls back, and a website that doesn’t cost a fortune every month.

    The Radiko story (FR)

  6. 1a2b3c4 (ai)

    AI every day

    AI is part of my work every single day. I use it as one more tool in the studio, to move faster, test wider and deliver better work to my clients.

    What AI changes for a small business (FR)

  7. HEAD (today)

    Painting came back

    Through the code door, this time. The painting at the top of the home page doesn’t exist anywhere in real life: JavaScript paints it stroke by stroke, then it comes apart into code. It’s “the artist who learned to code” as an animation.

    How I built it
1980s photo booth strip: my mother, young, with me as a toddler in front of her
Mom and me. Photo booth, early 1980s.

The rest of the time.

I’m a dad of two. I cook, hike and bike. I play chess and board games.

I read a lot of psychology and philosophy. It helps me understand a client as much as it helps me structure an application.

Want to work together?

For a website or an AI project, go through Radiko. For everything else, my links are here.

Go to radiko.ca All my links