About

Engineer by training. Director by obsession.

I am Matthieu Czarkowski. ENSEEIHT engineer, a three-year work-study at Thales Alenia Space, then a YouTube channel built alone with AI: 95.1 million views. Studio Latent brings both together: a director’s eye and an engineer’s tools.

Matthieu Czarkowski
Matthieu Czarkowski, founder of Studio Latent
Studio
Ads, films, music videos, series, branding, websites
Engineering
Freelance FDE: agents, workflows, RAG
Based in
Toulouse · open to Switzerland
Format
On site, hybrid, remote
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CV

Two trades, two CVs

Pick the one that fits. Both are up to date and only cite measured figures.

What I can do

Skills

The essentials, in two columns. Everything listed was used on a real project.

Creative

  • Directing and writing

    Directing · Screenwriting · Shot list · Art direction

  • AI image and video

    Image generation · Text and image to video · Product and character consistency

  • Editing and finishing

    Editing · Colour grading · 4K finishing

  • Sound

    Voice and dubbing · Sound design · Mixing

  • Brand and audience

    First-three-second hooks · Thumbnails and titles · Branding

Engineering

  • Agents, RAG and evaluation

    Agents (tool calling) · MCP · Hybrid RAG · Evaluation

  • Models and inference

    PyTorch · LoRA / PEFT · Local LLMs

  • Development

    Python · FastAPI · TypeScript / React

  • Cloud and deployment

    Docker · AWS · CI/CD

  • Security

    Audits and pentesting · Cryptography / PKI

  • Delivery and consulting

    Scoping · Acceptance testing · Hand-over

Based in
ToulouseOpen to Switzerland: Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich
Languages
French · English C1Cambridge
Partnership
Black Forest Labs
Off screen
PowerliftingNational level

The path

Field, audience, studio

Three stages that explain how I work today.

Thales Alenia Space · 2023–2026

Engineering under hard constraints

LLMs installed and maintained on a fully offline network, C++ encryption code, key management, audits and penetration tests. I learned rigour there, and that confidentiality is not optional.

LaRefVlog · 2025–2026

The audience

A channel built alone, with AI, in one year: 340 shorts, a mini-series, 95.1 million measured views. Every day, a real audience told me what works and what does not.

Studio Latent · today

The studio

Both together: ads, films and series made like cinema, with tools I write myself. And, for companies, AI deployed on site, freelance.

Background

From networks to film

Systems, space cryptography, then generative AI.

  1. 2026

    Independent creator partner

    Black Forest Labs

    Since July 2026

    Visual work, early access testing of new models and usage feedback.

  2. 2025

    Founder: AI creative studio and freelance AI engineering

    Studio Latent · LaRefVlog

    Since September 2025

    AI-generated ads, films, music videos and series, 4K masters with sound. YouTube channel with 340 shorts and a parody mini-series: 95.1M measured views across 347 videos. Freelance AI engineering: agents, workflows, document assistants.

  3. 2025

    Erasmus in Sweden, cybersecurity

    Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU)

    2025 – 2026

    Systems security, cloud security, information assurance and risk management.

  4. 2023

    Software and security engineer, apprenticeship

    Thales Alenia Space

    Sep 2023 – Sep 2026

    Deployed and ran local LLMs on a closed network. Ground encryptor in C++ and key management. Async Rust simulator for space-to-ground encryption (final project). Audits and penetration tests. Offline GitLab/Docker CI/CD, hardening, IaC.

  5. 2023

    MEng in computer science and networks, class of 2026

    ENSEEIHT, Toulouse INP

    2023 – 2026

    Engineering degree, work-study programme.

  6. 2023

    Full-stack developer, internship

    Amphitrite / Alloa Voyages

    Apr – Aug 2023

    ERP migration to Go and gRPC, Python back end, relational databases, production releases.

  7. 2021

    Computer science (2 years), systems technician

    ULCO Calais · Skylord

    2021 – 2023

    Servers, Docker and automated deployments.

Contact · a personal reply, from me

An idea? Let’s make it a film.

matthieu@studiolatent.fr

Describe your project in one sentence: I reply with specific questions and a first idea.

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