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Latest CV modification: May 4, 2025

Basic Info

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  • Full Name: Chris-Armel IRADUKUNDA
  • Online Handle: daqhris
  • Birth Year: 1992
  • Nationality: Burundi

Formal Training

  • 2025: CIFAS - Constellations: Co-learning for artists centered on performing art in the city and its fringes (Français, Bruxelles)
  • 2023-2024: Sound Image Culture - Observer of collective feedback sessions on the films of SIC participants (English, Brussels)
  • 2021, 2016: freeCodeCamp - Web Development Certification: Coding in HTML, CSS & JavaScript
  • 2019: CVO Technische Scholen Mechelen - Campus Merode: Nederlands voor anderstaligen NT2 (België)
  • 2017: Université de Namur (Belgique) - Faculté d'Informatique (Français, dropout)
  • 2013-2016: University of Science and Technology Beijing (China) - School of Computer and Communication Engineering (中文, dropout)
  • 2012-2013: Tianjin University (China) - School of International Education
  • 2005-2011: Lycée du Saint-Esprit (Burundi) - Scientific A Section (Maths & Physics)
  • 1999-2005: École Primaire Stella Matutina (Burundi)

Noteworthy Work

  • May 2025: Blockchain application builder during Base Batch Europe hosted online by Devfolio.
  • Jan - Avr 2025: Écriture, réalisation et représentation d'un prototype de performance théâtrale «Doublement Aliéné» en tant qu'artiste constellé à la Fonderie sous la houlette du CIFAS.
  • Summer 2024 - NOW: Creator and developer of open source software for a duo of artistic apps on the Base blockchain: MissionEnrollment (with Devin AI) & ZinnekeRescueMission.
  • Oct - Dec 2024: Author and onchain publisher of two short stories about non-human intelligent lifeforms: Twofold Alienated and God Bless USA.
  • Summer 2024 - NOW: Author, designer and online publisher of an open source artist's book: Commit awalkaday to Memory.
  • Spring 2024: Co-author of an Ethical Charter for the ATLAS project with university researchers from KULeuven and Odisee.
  • Spring 2021 - Summer 2024: Creator, software developer and photographer of awalkaday.art Photo Collection.
  • Spring - Autumn 2024: Actor in a cinematic project directed by artist and filmmaker Karina Beumer.
  • Winter 2023: Full-stack web developer of an email campaign for MoreThanEnough.be.
  • Winter 2020 - 2022: Audio data contributor and validator for Common Voice, Mozilla Foundation's voice recognition dataset.
  • Summer 2020: House painter and attic renovator in Bastogne, Luxembourg.
  • Winter-Spring 2020: Horse stable helper on a farm in Malonne, Namur.
  • Autumn 2019: Warehouse worker at a second-hand garments exporter in Beveren, Sint-Niklaas (East Flanders).
  • Summer 2019: Route guide, logistics & setup volunteer for Brussels Grand Départ 2019 (BXL Tour, European Cycle Messenger Championship and Tour de France 2019).
  • Spring 2018: Dishwasher at a Chinese buffet restaurant in Waterloo, Walloon Brabant.
  • Winter 2017-Spring 2018: Bicycle mechanic in a bike workshop at a Red Cross refugee center in Namur (Belgium).
  • Summer-Autumn 2016: Freelance web developer based in Mohandessin, Cairo (Egypt).
  • 2015-2016: Actor, recruiter and manager of foreign talent for blockbuster movies produced by China Film Group Corporation : China Salesman, Wolf Warrior 2, My War (in-studio: Huairou, Beijing; on-location: Hebei, Inner Mongolia).
  • 2014-2015: Male fashion model and background movie actor based in Beijing, China.

Social Commitment

  • Cub leader in the Scout movement as part of the Charles de Foucauld Unit in Rohero (Bujumbura) (2000-2004)
  • Editor-in-chief, online content manager and fundraising coordinator of the high school student magazine Akanuma Journal (2009-2011)
  • Recipient of the Best Devotion to School Award upon graduation (2011) and Grantee of a full-ride university scholarship to China (2012)
  • Ardent member of the AEBUP (Association of Burundian Students in Beijing) and Promoter of cultural events among the African diaspora (2013-2016)
  • Mechanic renovator of bikes allocated to asylum seekers at the Atelier Vélo of the Collectif Citoyens Solidaires (Namur) (2017-2019)
  • Tech talks host and volunteer at FOSDEM: Free and Open-source Software Developers' European Meeting (ULB, Brussels) (2020-2025)
  • Tickets handler and volunteer during Brussels Museum Night Fever at ISELP (2022)
  • Participation to the Co-Creation Labs on Housing of the ATLAS research project organised by KULeuven & Odisee (Brussels) (Dec'24 - Jan'25)

Technical Abilities

  • Human Languages: Français, English and 中文 (Kirundi, Swahili and Nederlands)
  • Computer Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, C, Git
  • Coding Enviroments: GitHub, Internet, Ethereum
  • Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Google Android
  • Sports: Cycling, Running, Hiking
  • Hobbies: Photography, Film, Reading, FinTech
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