Michel Kaporin
Staff Software Engineer at Snyk
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel Kaporin is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with a decade of experience building full-stack systems and improving developer tooling. At Snyk he progressed from Senior to Staff engineer, contributing to the widely used Snyk CLI where he added VS Code integration, multi-language support, and resolved complex build and proxy issues. He brings hands-on expertise across front-end and back-end areas, plus testing and CI/build troubleshooting, making him effective at shipping production-grade security tooling. His background spans fast-paced enterprise and consultancy roles as well as an early startup founder, giving him both delivery discipline and product intuition. Trained at ETH Zürich and Newcastle University, he combines formal CS rigor with practical experience in distributed and secure systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges deep technical fixes with user-facing developer experience improvements.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science (Mobile and Distributed Systems), Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science (Mobile and Distributed Systems) at Newcastle UniversitySecondary Education Mathematics and Computer Science, Secondary Education Mathematics and Computer Science at Rīgas Klasiskā ģimnāzijaMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at ETH Zürich
English, Russian, Latvian, German
Github Skills (13)
snyk10
vulnerabilities10
security10
typescript-types9
vscode9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
testing8
monitor8
gradle7
gradlew7
cicd7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Michel contributed to the Snyk CLI, making both front-end and back-end changes. Their work included adding VS Code integration and implementing new language representations within the CLI. They also fixed bugs related to proxying requests, ETXTBSY errors, and Gradle acceptance tests, demonstrating involvement in testing and build processes. The user's contributions spanned multiple parts of the application, indicating a broad understanding of the codebase.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
michelkaporin/vscode
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:62 pushes, 16 branches in 2 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiontypescriptvisual-studio
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