I make things to understand how they work.
I’m Michel, a developer in Zürich exploring the interesting edges of software, from thoughtful apps to cryptography and low-level systems.
A little about me
I began as a self-taught developer, driven by curiosity and the urge to build. Detector and Vento were very early hobby projects from my teens. They show my interest in low-level software back then, not my skill today.
That curiosity eventually pulled me deeper into cryptography and low-level systems, culminating in Cypher, a blockchain I built from scratch to explore decentralized trust.
Professionally, I’ve contributed to secure, scalable systems at Hypertegrity and now bring that experience to Digital Architects Zürich.
Selected projects
AIKP
An experimental processor architecture exploring hardware isolation between application memory and the kernel.
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A physical wallet experiment about secure elements, challenge-response and who really needs access to a key.
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Detector
A very early hobby project from my teens. It shows my interest in low-level software back then and does not reflect my skill today.
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Vento
A very early hobby project from my teens. It shows my interest in low-level software back then and does not reflect my skill today.
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Cypher
A blockchain providing Tor-like routing for private messages.
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