Anna Costalonga
Software Engineer at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAnna Costalonga is a senior software engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building and maintaining complex Ruby on Rails systems, APIs and Postgres-backed platforms for organisations like the Hasso Plattner Institute and numerous SMEs. She specialises in backend architecture, internationalisation, SQL scripting and test-driven development, and regularly leads pair/mob programming, code reviews and mentorship in agile teams. Beyond engineering, Anna is a seasoned technical writer, literary translator and editor fluent in Italian, English, French and German, bringing a rare combination of localisation expertise and content creation to product teams. Her background in classical music journalism and running a bilingual feminist blog informs a user-centered, culturally literate approach to content-heavy applications. She pairs hands-on delivery with platform-thinking gained through MIT courses, making her especially effective at internationalised learning and publishing systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Lingue e letterature straniere moderne, Lingue, letterature e linguistica straniere, Lingue e letterature straniere moderne, Lingue, letterature e linguistica straniere at Università degli Studi di PadovaDigital Transformation: Platform Strategies for Success, Digital Transformation: Platform Strategies for Success at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFull Stack Web Developer, Full Stack Web Developer at CareerFoundry
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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Github Skills (101)
web-application10
webapp10
python9
ruby9
design-patterns9
scale8
semantic-web8
testing8
coffeescript8
large-scale8
anki8
linked-open-data8
error-reporting7
system7
cookie-consent7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Adsidera/creepyfollows_frontend
May 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 40 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Adsidera/creepyfollows_backend
May 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 PRs, 47 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 9 months
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