Filippo Polo
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Albignasego, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolFilippo Polo is a seasoned software engineer and consultant with 18+ years building bespoke industrial and scientific software, from custom SCADA and weighing systems to research tools for Microsoft Research Cambridge’s biology group. He combines industrial automation expertise with computational biology training, enabling pragmatic solutions where off‑the‑shelf products fall short. A self-employed developer based near Padua, he delivers cross‑industry systems used by family businesses and multinationals across Italy and beyond. His open-source contributions include modernizing Microsoft’s Automatic Graph Layout for .NET Standard compatibility and improving graph viewer stability and clustering—reflecting a knack for cross‑platform maintainability and low-level robustness.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica in Informatica, Informatica, 110L, Laurea Specialistica in Informatica, Informatica, 110L at Ca' Foscari University of VeniceMaster in Biologia Computazionale, Master in Biologia Computazionale at Università degli Studi di Trento
Italian, English
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Github Skills (8)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netstandard10
msbuild9
graph-algorithms8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/automatic-graph-layout
May 2015 - Oct 2020
A set of tools for graph layout and viewing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 27 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Filippo primarily focused on enabling .NET Standard compatibility for the project, refactoring the build process to support this new target framework. The code changes include modifications to assembly information, project files (.csproj), and the addition of new examples. The commits also involved updating SharpKit build, reflecting an interest in cross-platform development and maintaining compatibility with multiple build systems. The user’s work included fixing potential crashes in GraphViewerGDI and extending cluster layout options.
graph-layoutlayoutgraph
FilippoPolo/automatic-graph-layout
Apr 2015 - Oct 2020
A set of tools for graph layout and viewing
Contributions:21 PRs, 60 pushes in 5 years 7 months
graph-layoutlayoutgraph
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