I graduated from high school in France in 2012. Then I went to law school — not because I wanted to become a lawyer but because I was very interested in learning about the law itself: rules, history, important cases.
I loved law school. I learnt a lot and it gave me a key to understand the society we live in better. Why we have certain rules. How the definition of each crime is built over the years based on new crimes being committed.
In law school I had quite a lot of free time, and I was really passionate about movies. So, in December 2013, I used OverBlog to create a blog called "Itinerary of a cinephile." On this blog, I wrote 250+ reviews of movies and TV shows over 5 years.
Then I moved the blog to WordPress. I thought I was quite limited with the design, so I went on Google to learn how to make changes in the code. That's how I discovered "Le Site du Zéro," now OpenClassrooms.
I learnt HTML and CSS on OpenClassrooms. It was so cool. I made all the changes on my blog as I wanted. I felt like I had superpowers. On the side, I was also getting more and more interested in entrepreneurship — I saw people building their own websites and making money out of them.
I thought that business school was the best way for me to learn entrepreneurship (today I don't believe that anymore). So, after I graduated with a Master in Business Law in 2016, I took a bank loan and went to business school.
During my two years of Master in Management, I was an apprentice at a large French company. I liked the experience and loved the people I met, but I kept thinking: "What I really want to do is launch my own company."
In my head, entrepreneurship and coding were tightly linked. I saw learning to code as a big step towards creativity, autonomy, flexibility, money, freedom. So, when I graduated from business school in 2018, I joined a 9-week Ruby on Rails coding bootcamp: Le Wagon.
When I graduated from Le Wagon in 2019, I did it. I started my own company. I became a freelance web developer, first taking on missions in areas I knew: WordPress, Ruby on Rails.
One day, someone contacted me and asked if I could build an e-commerce website for him with Shopify. I'd never heard about Shopify but I said yes. I looked up some tutorials on YouTube, read the docs, and built the store. I enjoyed it so much.
I really fell in love with the product. And coming from a Ruby on Rails background, learning Shopify's templating language (Liquid) was very easy. So I quickly specialized in Shopify: building stores, migrating stores from WordPress/Prestashop/Squarespace, and eventually developing apps.
Today I'm a Lead Internal Tool Builder at Shopify — which means I went from building for Shopify merchants to building for Shopify itself. I build internal AI-powered tools and MCP servers used by product teams every day.
I don't regret going to law school and business school. I would totally do it again.
The only thing I would change: I would learn how to code earlier.