Michael Spalti
Software Engineer at Willamette University
Salem, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Spalti is a seasoned software engineer and systems team leader with 12 years of professional experience, currently building and extending an open-source repository platform while modernizing online learning infrastructure. Based in Salem, Oregon, he architects full-stack solutions—designing Angular front-ends, REST APIs in Java/Spring and Node.js, and deploying services on Red Hat virtual servers with both relational and NoSQL databases. He brings practical security and federation expertise through SAML2/Shibboleth configuration and automated certificate management with Let's Encrypt, and frequently leverages Python and XQuery for XML processing. An active contributor to the DSpace Angular UI, he has improved metadata editing workflows and test coverage for IIIF-related components, reflecting a focus on usable interfaces for digital scholarship. Trained in information studies (MLIS, Syracuse), he combines library-oriented domain knowledge with hands-on engineering to enhance access to education and research.
12 years of coding experience
MLIS, Information Studies, MLIS, Information Studies at Syracuse University
Github Skills (9)
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
typescript-types10
angular10
testing10
ngrx7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/dspace-angular
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
DSpace User Interface built on Angular.io
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 121 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on developing and testing UI components within the DSpace Angular interface. Their contributions involved adding and modifying components for editing bitstream metadata, including IIIF-related form fields. The user also wrote and updated unit tests to ensure that components were functioning as designed. This work demonstrates a focus on improving the user interface and the functionality related to handling digital object metadata.
user-interfaceangular-ioyarnangular-uingrx
mspalti/dspace-angular
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
Angular UI for DSpace 7. See the README below for links to resources and documentation.
Contributions:75 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
dspaceangular-uilinksangular
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