Igor Steinmacher
Associate Director For Graduate Programs
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Steinmacher is an Associate Professor and Associate Director for Graduate Programs at Northern Arizona University with 13 years of experience bridging empirical software engineering, open source ecosystems, and human-centered computing. He leads externally funded research on OSS sustainability, governance, and AI-assisted project analytics, specializing in combining heterogeneous data sources—repositories, issue trackers, and communication—to generate concise, traceable insights for project leaders and maintainers. His work emphasizes interpretability and real-world usefulness over black-box prediction, and he has operationalized analytics to surface risks, dependencies, and onboarding challenges for complex software systems. A hands-on developer and contributor to notable projects like JabRef, he pairs practical backend engineering experience with curriculum design and academic leadership to build AI-focused programs and mentor the next generation of researchers. Notably, he applies AI not just for prediction but to optimize conciseness and auditability of analytic outputs, making analytics actionable for governance and decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer at USP - Universidade de São PauloMSc Software Process, MSc Software Process at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulBSc Computer Sciences, BSc Computer Sciences at Universidade Estadual de Maringá
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
javas10
sql10
java10
bibtex9
database-administration8
databases8
database8
mysql8
admin8
postgresql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JabRef/jabref
Oct 2013 - Mar 2020
Desktop app for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) libraries
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the JabRef application. Their work involved enhancing SQL scripts for improved data handling, specifically adding features to export and import data, including private fields. They also addressed a database export issue by implementing a conditional case to correctly escape special characters. Further contributions include code formatting and the addition of comments for enhanced readability and understanding of the code.
biblatexbibtexjabrefjavalatex
igorsteinmacher/flosscoach
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 132 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 7 months
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