Elsa Passaro is a Software Quality Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging scientific research and production software, currently at Red Hat after building and maintaining the Materials Cloud platform at EPFL. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in Quantum Information Theory, she combines rigorous analytical modeling with practical engineering skills in Python, MATLAB, R, SQL and cloud/container tooling. Her work spans back-end APIs, front-end interfaces, automated deployments and scalable containerized services, and she has contributed to the AiiDA core by improving structure visualization and documentation. Detail-oriented and data-driven, she has also applied forecasting algorithms in industry settings and enjoys turning complex research workflows into user-friendly, reproducible tools.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Theoretical Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Master's Degree, Theoretical Physics, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
Erasmus Project, Physics, Erasmus Project, Physics at Universidad de Salamanca
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Elsa primarily contributed to the documentation and implementation of features related to structure visualization within the AiiDA core. This included adding new steps to the quickstart guide, making minor modifications to existing documentation, and setting the XSF format as the default for structure visualization. Furthermore, the user implemented methods for preparing the structure data for visualization and added a check for the visualization format, indicating a focus on the data handling and user interface aspects of the project.
It contains the materials cloud global theme common in all frontends.
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
frontendsfrontendmaterials-cloudvuejs
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