Michaël Zasso
Co-Founder at Zakodium
Switzerland
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Michaël Zasso is a Swiss co-founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable back-end systems, modern web frameworks, and developer tooling. He combines low-level runtime expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Node.js and a forked Node runtime with V8 backports—with front-end improvements to popular visualization libraries like react-vis. As a co-founder of Zakodium and former developer at EPFL and Université de Lausanne, he moves fluidly between infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and framework-level fixes that improve compatibility and maintainability. His open-source work spans critical projects (nodejs/*, adonisjs, react-vis) where he has fixed compiler and memory issues, modernized legacy code, and added practical features for ESM and toolchain compatibility. Trained originally in criminalistics, he brings a methodical, investigative mindset to debugging complex systems and improving developer experience. Based in Switzerland, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with deep technical craftsmanship across the full stack.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Criminalistics and Criminal Science, Master of Science (MSc), Criminalistics and Criminal Science at Université de Lausanne
English, German
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Github Skills (66)
testing10
bash10
charting10
build-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
javascript10
charts10
memory-management10
dockers10
ansible10
data-visualization10
typescripts10
data-visualizations10
c-language10
v810
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nodejs/citgm
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Canary in the Gold Mine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 111 commits, 281 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michaël primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of the `nodejs/citgm` repository, specifically concentrating on code style and quality. The user's commits demonstrate a shift towards modern JavaScript practices by enabling strict mode, converting `var` to `const`/`let`, and applying ESLint rules. The user also fixed several test issues and upgraded dependencies. They demonstrated the ability to make structural improvements, upgrade dependencies, and refine the codebase.
javascriptgoldcanarynpm-modulenodejs
ayojs/ayo
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
A fork of Node.js. Humans before technology.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michaël primarily contributed to the ayojs repository, which is a fork of Node.js. Their work involved fixing path normalization issues, updating the V8 engine, and backporting V8 features. They also added a V8 embedder version string and implemented changes to support the new version. The contributions involved various code modifications across different files.
node-jsnodejsv8-javascript-engine
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