Nicolas Payot is a senior software engineer based in Lyon with 11 years of experience building production-ready web and mobile applications, now working at Datadog. He combines hands-on front-end expertise and technical leadership from roles at Malt and Dawex with full‑stack and mobile foundations gained earlier in his career. Proven at shipping pragmatic solutions, he has led front-end platforms and chapters while mentoring teams and teaching JavaScript and front-end development at the university level. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core behavior and multi-app support in the popular Nuxt framework, showing a knack for subtle, infrastructure-level fixes that improve developer ergonomics. Comfortable across product and engineering boundaries, he focuses on solving complex problems with simple, durable designs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at UTBM
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Pohang University of Science and Technology
2 years technical degree (Diplome Universitaire de Technologie) Computer Science, 2 years technical degree (Diplome Universitaire de Technologie) Computer Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Contributions:13 reviews, 5 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the Nuxt framework, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the core application. Their work included implementing the `status` property in `useAsyncData`, addressing navigation issues related to `window.location` updates, and improving the handling of multiple Nuxt applications at runtime. These changes involved modifications to the core composables, Nitro integration, and testing infrastructure. The user also worked on expanding multi-app support, enhancing the overall flexibility of the framework.
Contributions:82 pushes, 45 branches in 2 years 7 months
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Nicolas Payot - Senior Software Engineer at Datadog