Mykhaylo Boychuk is a Full Stack Developer based in Rome with 8 years of professional experience and a strong Java focus, specializing in migration and enhancement of DSpace-based research and publication management systems. At 4Science he has led multiple high-profile migrations and feature implementations for institutions such as Harvard Library, NTU Singapore, UCD, and the California Digital Library, combining backend Java expertise with database migration and REST-driven integrations. He contributes to the flagship open-source DSpace project—working on internal services, class refactors and search methods—which underscores his comfort with large, community-driven codebases. Comfortable across the full stack, he applies TDD and contract-driven REST design in Spring applications, delivering reliable, testable systems for research information management. Notably, he has a knack for translating complex institutional data models into practical migration strategies, a skill cultivated through repeated international deployments.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "G.Armellini" in Roma
Laurea Triennale in Ingegneria Informatica, Computer Engineering, Laurea Triennale in Ingegneria Informatica, Computer Engineering at Università degli studi Roma TRE
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:28 reviews, 621 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mykhaylo's commits primarily focused on fixing checkstyle issues and renaming classes within the Java-based DSpace digital asset management system. They contributed to the ChoiceAuthorityServiceImpl and other classes, indicating a focus on the system's internal workings. The user's work included code changes to support the web application, which also involved the migration of classes and the implementation of new search methods to the repository.
Repository to discuss the new REST API contract for DSpace 7 https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+Working+Group
Contributions:8 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 11 months
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Mykhaylo Boychuk - Full Stack Developer at 4Science