Education

Lucien holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Software Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2013-2018). During his degree, he did an exchange semester at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, where he took an Artificial Intelligence course focused on Prolog.

At McGill, Lucien built several Android applications including a soccer scorekeeping app for referees, a postal rate calculator, "SnowMore" (connecting users with snow shovellers in Montreal), and a kinesthetic data recording app using Fourier transforms. He realized during university that he was more interested in the hands-on computing and implementation side of software rather than the engineering process and documentation side.

After graduating from McGill, Lucien actually disliked software engineering and considered a completely different career path. He applied to consulting firms like BCG and Oliver Wyman. A friend then introduced him to Le Wagon, a coding bootcamp, and he decided to give software engineering one last chance. Le Wagon's product-focused, hands-on approach — coding all day after a lecture with a teacher present — was the polar opposite of McGill's theoretical style. It reignited his love for building software.

In 2018, he attended Le Wagon London (Batch #190), a 9-week intensive fullstack web development bootcamp where he learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, SQL, Git, GitHub, Ruby on Rails, React, and Redux. During the bootcamp he built a clone of Airbnb for boats and an activity generator for indecisive people.

In 2022, he attended Harvard Business School's one-week "Families in Business" program in Boston.

He also interned twice at Dataflow, a software company in Beirut — first as a web developer building a governmental educational website, then as an Android developer building an interactive reader application for schools.