Davide Cervone
Professor at Union College
City of Schenectady, New York, United States
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RockstarDavide Cervone is a Professor at Union College with 15 years of software engineering experience and a long-standing academic career since 1996, based in Schenectady, New York. He is a hands-on developer and technical writer active in prominent open-source projects—most notably MathJax—where he has improved rendering of fractions, roots, and stretchy characters as well as documentation and startup synchronization. His work spans full-stack and back-end responsibilities, including stability-focused refactors and database/UI improvements for the WeBWorK course management system. Known for blending rigorous academic thinking with practical engineering, he brings deep domain knowledge in mathematical typesetting and educational software to produce reliable, well-documented systems.
15 years of coding experience
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mathjax/MathJax-src
May 2016 - Jan 2023
MathJax source code for version 3 and beyond
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 releases, 341 reviews, 2560 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Davide's contributions focused on enhancing the MathJax source code. The changes involved improving the lab startup sequence and ensuring synchronization between lab checkboxes and menus. They also made adjustments to the code to enable improved rendering functionality, and address issues in the horizontal and vertical stretchy character rendering, as well as improve the performance of the system in the context of the document.
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mathjax/MathJax-docs
Mar 2011 - May 2022
MathJax documentation. Beautiful math in all browsers. Beautifully documented.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 reviews, 272 commits, 71 PRs in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Davide's commits primarily involve updating and improving the MathJax documentation. Their contributions focus on refining content, correcting spelling and formatting errors, and adding details to various sections, including information on automatic equation numbering, the SVG output processor, and the setoptions extension. The user also added documentation for the MathML and textmacros, and made several other adjustments and improvements to the documentation.
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