Michael Zuser
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Zuser is an experienced software engineer with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience in functional programming, C#, Java, and database systems, grounded in a Computer Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has a track record of shipping practical tooling and protocols—ranging from a C# EDSL and testing frameworks to TCP routing systems implemented in Haskell—and has contributed notable improvements to the upstream Haskell cabal-install project around script support and build behavior. Comfortable moving between low-level C/Perl work for embedded chips and higher-level Java and Haskell systems, he combines strong engineering fundamentals with a knack for refactoring build and deployment workflows. Based in Waltham, MA, he also brings teaching and research experience in mathematics, graph theory, and simulation, which informs his analytical approach to software design.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (6)
cabal10
command-line-arguments10
argument-parsing10
scripting10
haskell10
build-system9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
haskell/cabal
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 18 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed significantly to improving the `cabal-install` tool, focusing on enhancements related to script support. They addressed issues in parsing command-line arguments, added support for script build caching and script support for `cabal clean`, and improved the handling of script names containing spaces and colons. The user also refactored code related to script execution and improved the generated executable names for scripts.
hackagecabalhaskellupstream
bacchanalia/cabal
Dec 2021 - May 2024
Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install
Contributions:72 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 6 months
cabalupstream
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