I'll be honest. I discovered him with this post. And I studied in France. I am also familiar with his projects, the obfuscated C code contest and more. Just don't remember seeing his name.
I guess that if people aren't loud on social media, people tend to ignore them.
Respect to those who posted their praise of someone else on social media. We need more of this.
What percentage of the population are computer programmers?
Welcome to that sub-group of the Lucky 10,000 today!
https://xkcd.com/1053/