Andrea Amantini
Software Engineer at Nextjournal
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAndrea Amantini is a software engineer in Berlin with 13 years of experience who moved from a PhD in mathematics into building distributed, event-driven systems. An Erlang/Elixir enthusiast at Nextjournal, he blends deep theoretical training with pragmatic engineering—contributing to live programming tools like nextjournal/clerk (UI and build tooling) and several Elixir open-source projects for streaming, OSC, and remote browser control. He has led full-stack architecture and prototyping efforts at devolute.org and enjoys working on connected/embedded device networks and streaming resources. Currently expanding his toolset with Rust and Haskell, Andrea brings a researcher's rigor to production code and a taste for experimental DSLs and neuroevolution frameworks.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Mathematics at Università degli Studi di FirenzeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at Humboldt University of Berlin
English, Italian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
reagent10
clojure-cli10
clojure10
highlight9
syntax-highlighter9
highlighter9
clojurescript9
syntax-highlighting9
highlighting9
tailwindcss8
css8
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
refinement6
erubis6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nextjournal/clerk
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
⚡️ Moldable Live Programming for Clojure
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 276 commits, 160 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrea contributed to the development of the `clerk` library, a tool for moldable live programming in Clojure. Their commits included improvements to the user interface with Reagent, enhancing the compatibility of the hiccup viewer. The user also worked on infrastructure tasks such as adding a build task to upload assets to a content-addressable storage system, modifying the build process. Additional contributions involved fixing bugs in the viewer related to handling countable objects and improved the display of code blocks.
notebooklive-programmingreplclojurescriptclojure
zampino/osc-spirograph
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:67 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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