About
Martinique soul. Paris brain. New York pace.
I’m a self-taught developer — from Paris, Caribbean roots, Vietnamese heritage, eighteen years in New York City, and sixteen years of building web products for real people with real problems. I chase my dreams, never settle for comfort, and turn every obstacle into a reason to keep going.
I build PWAs, wire AI automations, and solve whatever you put in front of me. In English or French. No agency overhead. No nonsense. Just solutions.
Heritage
Three continents
My paternal grandfather was a Martiniquais general in the French army who met a Vietnamese woman during the war. Their son — half Martiniquais, half Vietnamese, raised in France — became my father. My mother is Parisian: quiet, reserved, and the sharpest mind in any room she enters.
I grew up in Paris, the child of this particular combination: Caribbean fire, Vietnamese depth, French precision, and a family story that crosses three continents and a war. I associate fully with my Caribbean heritage — it is the loudest part of me, the most present, the most joyful.
The journey
The world in a backpack
From age 22 to 28, I traveled alone across five continents — not in the Instagram sense, but on modest means, by choice. The Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia. I met people everywhere, ate what they ate, danced what they danced. I came home from each place a slightly different person — more certain, more curious, more capable of finding my way through an unfamiliar situation with limited information and no backup plan.
That mindset — figure it out, adapt, keep moving — became the foundation of how I solve problems today.
Bolivia — Lake Titicaca by bike
Brazil — Natal
Costa Rica — World’s longest zipline
Thailand — River Kwai Bridge
Guadeloupe — Carnival
Hollywood
Japan
Malaysia — Batu Caves
Malaysia — Temple
Mexico — Teotihuacán
Miami — Rollerskate
Miami — Everglades
New York City
Paris — Airport
Singapore — Zoo
Thailand — Baby elephant
Thailand — Elephant ride
Thailand — Koh Phi Phi
Thailand — Peace Vessel
Tunisia — Camel ride
New York
Stubbornness and a computer
Eighteen years ago, I landed in NYC with no plan and one contact. I found my footing in Harlem, hosted a bilingual French-English radio show on an African channel, and became Managing Editor of a community newspaper. Being a developer wasn’t on my radar. I just wanted to work.
I also worked as a data entry operator at a real estate company. Then my boss asked me to build websites. I said yes, even though I had never built one. Over sixteen years, I taught myself everything — no bootcamp, no mentor, no structured curriculum. There was a problem, a computer, and stubbornness.
On air — Downtown, NYC
New York Griot — Managing Editor
The multiplier
AI as a creative partner
I’m an AI enthusiast — not because it replaces thinking, but because it handles the redundant and cumbersome so I can focus on what matters: creativity, laughter, and life.
I use AI to move faster and think bigger. The skill is not memorizing syntax. The skill is knowing what to build, for whom, and how to ship it. AI handles the repetitive work. I bring the judgment, the taste, and the experience. That’s the deal.
The turning point
The app that started byizzy.app
After sixteen years of building web products for clients, the first product I built for myself was for my aging parents. From 5,000 miles away, I noticed the home care agency was overcharging. So I built an app to fix it. Check it out in the portfolio.
That’s when it clicked: if I could solve my own problem, I could solve anyone’s. byizzy.app was born from that idea — a web service to solve real people’s real problems, one project at a time.
This is what an Izzy solution looks like: a real problem, a tool built exactly for that problem, and a system that assumes someone is watching — because someone is.
— Isabelle Williams