# Yacine Petitprez aka anykeyh **URL:** \ **Category:** Introductions\ **Created:** [January 19, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/yacine-petitprez-aka-anykeyh/309 "2019-01-19T04:32:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anykeyh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/anykeyh/32/726_2.png) [@anykeyh](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/anykeyh)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/yacine-petitprez-aka-anykeyh/309/1 "2019-01-19T04:32:59Z")
Greetings everyone ! Seems like I’ve overlooked this forum 🙂 My name is Yacine Petitprez, I’m french currently living in Bangkok, Thailand. I use to develop since 1998. At this time I was 11, I got captivated by the computer of my uncle and the games running on it. I begged my mom to buy me a computer, and coming from a poor family she brought me an old 386 computer, basically obsolete at this time (running on windows 3.11!!! 🤣 ). Thankfully, instead of playing game, I was told to make them, as it contained qbasic development kit integrated. 20 years later, I’m CTO, leading the development and maintenance of an ERP built with Ruby on Rails. I felt in love with Crystal two years ago when I started to lookup for technology to replace Ruby; my main concern was that Ruby is loosely typed, leading to many difficulty and technical debt as I’m working with some beginner & outsourced developers. The [billion dollars mistake](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare) is real !! During the last two year, I [worked on Clear](https://github.com/anykeyh/clear), an ORM for PostgreSQL, with the final idea to migrate our ERP to Crystal. On other project, I’ve started a PoC for coverage tool in crystal (not maintained however as a real coverage tool should be integrated straight to crystal compiler), and the famously infamous `await_async`, which gave pimple to some members of the core teams 🤣 (we agreed to disagree on this one). (Note: I cannot put more than two links, as I’m a new user ^^’) I’m excited to see the bright future of Crystal, and try to evangelize every developers to try it ! Cheers,