Ivan Zuzak
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolIvan Zuzak is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 17 years of experience improving availability, resilience, and performance across large-scale web platforms. At GitHub he has focused on observability, caching, graceful degradation, deploy safety and rate limiting, moving from support lead to senior and staff engineering roles. His background blends hands-on backend and frontend work—contributing to widely used open-source projects like Atom (fuzzy-finder, tree-view, markdown-preview) and GitHub platform samples—plus deep experience with Ruby on Rails and MySQL. Before GitHub he combined research and teaching at the University of Zagreb with industry engineering roles, mentoring students and shaping courses and tooling. Known for pragmatic refactors and shipping UX improvements, he bridges customer-facing support and core engineering to reduce incidents and improve developer experience. Outside work he’s a happy dad in Switzerland, which he cites as a grounding influence on his collaborative, long-term perspective.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (not completed!), Computer Science, Ph.D. (not completed!), Computer Science at University of Zagreb, School of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Croatian, English, German
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Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
atom/fuzzy-finder
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Find and open files quickly
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ivan contributed to the Atom fuzzy-finder project by implementing new features and addressing existing issues. Their work included adding a configuration option to control traversing into symlinked directories, enhancing the buffer finder with line number jumps, and modifying tests to demonstrate specific functionalities. The user's commits reflect a focus on improving the user interface and file navigation within the Atom editor. They also refactored existing code to include new functionalities.
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atom/atom
Mar 2014 - Nov 2015
:atom: The hackable text editor
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:214 commits, 65 PRs, 121 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the Atom text editor's user interface and functionality. Their work includes adding new features like gutter selection behavior and context menu enhancements, and also addressing usability and bug fixes related to mouse interactions. Additionally, the user has worked on improving the editor's existing features, such as soft wrapping and context menu items, alongside improving the testing suite by adding new tests for the features implemented.
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