Guillaume Michel
Research Engineer at Protocol Labs
Zug, Zug, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGuillaume Michel is a research engineer with a decade of experience focused on p2p systems, currently advancing IPFS and libp2p at Protocol Labs to make the Internet more resilient and decentralized. He blends applied security research and network engineering—roles at Open Systems, IBM (post-quantum cryptography thesis), Cisco, and EPFL—with deep academic grounding from EPFL, ETH Zürich and HKUST in communication systems and cybersecurity. Comfortable at the intersection of research and engineering, he ships practical protocol work while keeping an eye on long-term cryptographic agility. Based in Zug, Switzerland, he is passionate about free and open technologies and brings a pragmatic curiosity that surfaces in both classroom instruction and production-grade distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Cybersecurity at ETH ZürichBachelor of Science - BS, Communication Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Communication Systems at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
French, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
geth10
measurement10
peer-to-peer10
ipfs10
abi10
crawler10
p2p10
ipfs-protocol10
golang10
rust10
decentralization10
libp2p10
orbit-db10
filecoin10
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guillaumemichel/go-libp2p-kad-dht
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
A Kademlia DHT implementation on go-libp2p
Contributions:72 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
guillaumemichel/py-binary-trie
May 2022 - Jul 2024
Python binary trie implementation
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pythonnim-langtriepython-3python3
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