Massimo Santini
Assistant Professor at Università Degli Studi di Milano
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolMassimo Santini is an assistant professor and computer scientist with 15+ years of experience specializing in the design and analysis of algorithms, particularly for distributed high-performance web algorithmics, link analysis, and web information retrieval. He holds a PhD from Università degli Studi di Milano and has combined academic research with international visiting appointments, including Brown University and Dartmouth’s Thayer School. His research also spans approximation techniques for hard combinatorial problems and random generation of combinatorial objects, connecting theoretical depth with practical web-scale applications. Based in Milan, he contributes to open-source projects such as Pelican, where he has improved pagination, locale handling, and implemented author pages—showing hands-on backend skills beyond pure theory. Colleagues value him for bridging rigorous algorithmic research with reproducible software engineering and real-world web systems.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
English
Github Skills (7)
pelican10
static-site-generation10
python10
file-handling9
jinja28
restructuredtext7
rs7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
getpelican/pelican
Feb 2011 - Oct 2011
Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Massimo primarily contributed to the Pelican static site generator by fixing bugs and improving the code. They addressed issues related to path definitions, locale settings, and pagination logic. Additionally, the user implemented author pages, adding functionality to generate pages for authors and display their posts.
pythonstatic-sitesite-generatorrestpelican
scythe-suite/danake
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:111 commits, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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