Fabien Salathe
Engineering Manager (Foundation Team)
Switzerland
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Top SchoolFabien Salathe is an engineering manager with 13 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently leading Proton’s Foundation team after progressing through backend and core team leadership roles. Based in Switzerland, he blends full-stack engineering roots with people and platform leadership, driving secure, production-grade systems for a privacy-focused company. An active open-source contributor, Fabien has improved documentation for Symfony and enhanced code quality in notable projects like OpenPGP.js, showing attention to clarity and best practices beyond feature work. He also builds front-end tooling (Gutenberg) and has a history of shipping end-to-end products for SMEs, such as CMS and ERP-like systems for notaries. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering standards, meticulous documentation, and a preference for improving developer experience as much as product features.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science - Software orientation, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science - Software orientation at HEIG-VDSummer University Computer Science, Summer University Computer Science at SJSE
English, French, German
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
openpgp10
css10
s610
sc10
doc10
php10
scs10
xss10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
html10
documentation10
testing9
electron9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
BafS/Gutenberg
Oct 2015 - Jun 2021
Modern framework to print the web correctly.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 60 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Fabien primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Gutenberg repository. Their contributions include updating the demo and modifying its structure, and making changes to the styling of the demo page. They also updated the demo page, and fixed links. Their work included adding utilities to the demo page.
printingcssframeworkprintercss-framework
openpgpjs/openpgpjs
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
OpenPGP implementation for JavaScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Fabien primarily addressed best practices and code quality improvements within the openpgpjs repository. Their contributions included specifying radix values in `parseInt` calls and correcting 'use strict' usage in modules, following established coding standards. The user's work also involved updating packages, adding a lint script, and removing unnecessary eslint plugins. Finally, the user made code changes to enhance ES6 feature usage and improve code style.
javascripttypescriptopenpgp
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