Alberto Harres is a creative developer and co-founder based in Berlin with 11 years of experience blending fine arts sensibilities with full-stack software development. He maintains and contributes to AdNauseam at Cornell, improving UI, ad-network parsing, and extension functionality for privacy-focused browsing—work that reflects a commitment to ethical tech. His background ranges from interactive installations using OpenFrameworks to building education platforms with Laravel and Angular, showing fluency across front-end, back-end and creative tooling. Alberto’s MA in Digital Media and Fine Arts roots inform a design-forward approach to language and form in software, often exploring unconventional interfaces. He brings both hands-on coding and product-minded problem solving to startups and research projects, and tends to surface subtle UX refinements that improve complex systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic tinkerer who treats code as a material for artistic as well as functional expression.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Digital Media, Master of Arts - MA Digital Media at Hochschule für Künste Bremen
Bachelor's degree Fine/Studio Arts General, Bachelor's degree Fine/Studio Arts General at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:62 releases, 471 commits, 449 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily focused on improving the AdNauseam browser extension's user interface and functionality. They fixed several UI bugs related to displaying or handling filter list elements. The user also improved the integration of the features by correctly showing UI features. Furthermore, the developer implemented code to include a button to show ads debug on menu, also added functionality to handle states in the menu, also implement several fixes to ad networks parsing, improving the overall user experience and functionality of the extension.
Contributions:10 PRs, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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