Colin Rosenthal
IT Consultant at The Royal Danish Library (formerly Statsbiblioteket)
Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Rosenthal is an IT Consultant and software engineer with 17 years of industry experience and a strong background in research-grade science, holding a PhD in Astrophysics and an MSc in Software Engineering. He blends technical leadership and hands-on Java backend development with practical expertise in version control, CI/CD, integration testing and containerisation, and has contributed resilience fixes to the well-known Heritrix web crawler. Comfortable in both Danish and English workplaces, he has an international track record including work in the USA and Norway and long-term service at the Royal Danish Library. Equally at ease translating complex scientific models into robust software, he brings disciplined project management instincts from his academic grant and research roles to production engineering.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
cand.it. (MSc), Software Engineering, cand.it. (MSc), Software Engineering at Aarhus UniversityPhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Cambridge University
Github Skills (11)
crawler10
javas10
web-crawler10
webscraper10
webscraping10
heritrix10
java10
crawling10
regex9
junit8
jtest8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
internetarchive/heritrix3
Oct 2018 - May 2022
Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on improving the Heritrix3 web crawler project. They implemented a timeout feature for regular expression matching within the crawl logic, enhancing the crawler's resilience. They also fixed a potential null pointer exception in the `hashCode` method, improving the functionality of the browse beans feature. Furthermore, the user added code to filter out embedded images.
web-crawlerinternet-archivescalearchivecommoncrawl
netarchivesuite/crawlrss
Oct 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 pushes in 8 years 1 month
rsscrawlfeedadd-onheritrix
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