Giulio Gratta
Staff Instructor at Maker Nexus
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGiulio Gratta is a multidisciplinary Senior Full-Stack Engineer and Staff Instructor with 13 years of experience blending product design, front-end craft, and backend engineering. Based in Redwood City, he has driven UI/UX theming and platform improvements for large open-source education software like Open edX and Stanford’s OpenEdX deployments, while also architecting production systems for film production HR/payroll and enterprise platforms. He excels at synthesizing design thinking with pragmatic engineering—building features, upgrading core libraries, and improving maintainability—while mentoring teammates and new instructors. Outside of product work he designs and manufactures parts for makerspaces, bringing hands-on fabrication and machine improvement into his technical problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Henry M. Gunn High SchoolBS, Engineering, Product Design, BS, Engineering, Product Design at Stanford University
German, French, Italian, English
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
css10
pdfjs10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
html10
mako10
develop9
ux-design9
python9
django9
user-experience9
web-frontend9
frontend9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Stanford-Online/edx-theme
May 2013 - Sep 2015
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Giulio primarily focused on theming and UI/UX improvements for the edX platform, modifying CSS and HTML templates to reflect a new design. They changed the layout, added/modified navigation elements and footers, and implemented a maintenance page. The user also added alt attributes to images and updated the about page, as well as contributed to the theming of a help modal.
openedx/edx-platform
May 2013 - Jan 2018
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:247 commits, 40 PRs, 224 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Giulio made several contributions to the Open edX platform, primarily focusing on front-end and back-end improvements. They updated the course about page by removing unnecessary styles and adding classes. They also refactored code related to cosmetic display prices, including adding a feature flag and conditional logic. Additionally, the user upgraded the PDF.js library and made changes to the HTML and JavaScript for the PDF viewer and analytics.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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