Nicolas Dumazet
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNicolas Dumazet is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 17 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, security, and compiler systems. At Google he has led efforts to harden critical security backends and drive company-wide secure-by-default frameworks, with a focus on mitigating insider risk and operational threats. His background spans production reliability for cryptographic services, high-volume image indexing, and performance-driven backend work, showing a rare mix of deep security and systems engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has made impactful compiler and optimization contributions to the Nuitka Python compiler and long-standing projects like Mercurial and Pywikibot. He is particularly skilled at turning complex, high-stakes operational requirements into automated, auditable processes that reduce human error and resource waste. Comfortable moving between low-level performance tweaks and large organizational migrations, he marries pragmatic engineering with strong security hygiene.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, French
Stackoverflow
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64answers
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pyodbc
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mercurial
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unicode
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python
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parsing
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internationalization
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Github Skills (29)
performance-monitor10
python10
data-dictionary10
data-structure10
compiler-compiler10
performance-analysis10
compile10
data-structures10
compiler10
optimization10
c-language9
pyodbc9
internationalization9
unicode9
parsing9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Nuitka/Nuitka
Dec 2010 - Jan 2011
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.13. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Compiler Optimization Engineer
Back-end Developer & Compiler Optimization EngineerContributions:27 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the Nuitka Python compiler, demonstrating expertise in compiler internals and optimization techniques. Their work involved refactoring and enhancing the codebase, focusing on performance improvements through dictionary access optimization, and replacing less efficient constructs. They also made improvements to code generation, and refactored build scripts. The commits show a focus on code clarity, efficiency, and making the compiler's inner workings more streamlined.
python-2-6packaging-toolpythonpython-applot
nicdumz/dotfiles
May 2010 - Jan 2023
Old imperative way I used to configure dotfiles. Superseded by nicdumz/nix-config
Contributions:365 commits, 3 PRs, 120 pushes in 12 years 9 months
vimversioningchezmoidotfileszsh
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