Zoltan Kochan
Senior Software Engineer at Bit (bit.dev)
Budapest, Hungary
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Top SchoolZoltan Kochan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Budapest with 11 years of experience building performant, developer-facing tooling and scalable web systems. As a maintainer of pnpm and an active contributor across core projects like pnpm, changesets, and Bit, he blends deep back-end performance optimizations with practical front-end and CI/DevOps improvements. His work emphasizes dependency management, monorepo versioning, and reducing build overhead—often addressing tricky edge cases like peer-dependency deadlocks and self-referencing packages. At Bit he continues to ship features that span core platform logic and UX, having progressed through technical leadership roles at JustAnswer earlier in his career. Trained in applied mathematics, he brings a methodical, data-informed approach to debugging and architectural improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics at Uzhhorod National University
English, Ukrainian, Hungarian
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Github Skills (34)
dependency-management10
github-ci10
javascript10
pnpm10
package-management10
css10
typescript10
cicd10
automation10
performance-optimization10
typescript-types10
html10
nodejs10
automations10
typescripts10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pnpm/pnpm
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Fast, disk space efficient package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:611 releases, 1797 reviews, 7261 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Zoltan's commits primarily focus on improving the performance of the package manager pnpm. They implemented optimizations related to build processes, specifically around reducing the number of times dependencies are built during installation. They also made improvements to the way peer dependencies are resolved, addressing potential deadlocks and memory issues. Furthermore, the user introduced modifications to enhance the handling of local dependencies, ensuring files are correctly linked and accounted for.
diskjavascriptpackage-managernpm-cliinstall
pnpm/pnpm.io
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
pnpm's website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:172 reviews, 867 commits, 390 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zoltan primarily contributed to the website's front-end development by adding and optimizing HTML elements and styling. Their commits focused on basic layout improvements, such as adding general information, adding a GitHub corner, optimizing headings, making the page responsive, and adding meta tags. Additionally, the user added the tracking scripts for Google Analytics and created several localized versions of the webpage with translations.
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