Paulo Graça
RCAAP Technical Engineer at FCCN
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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RockstarPaulo Graça is an experienced technical engineer with 11 years at FCCN, where he supports RCAAP — Portugal’s national open access repository infrastructure — from Lisbon. He brings deep back-end Java expertise demonstrated by sustained contributions to the flagship DSpace project, focusing on harvesting, external data providers, OAI crosswalks and OpenAIRE funding integrations. Comfortable working across configuration and code (including XSLT and UUID refactors), he translates repository standards into robust, interoperable implementations. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Paulo blends production-facing engineering with a clear appreciation for scholarly communication ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
javas10
git-repository10
package-repository10
java10
dspace10
spring-boot9
rest-api9
xslt8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 reviews, 42 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the DSpace digital asset management system by modifying Java code related to harvesting, external data providers and OAI crosswalks. The changes include refactoring code to use UUIDs, addressing OpenAIRE related issues and incorporating new features for the OpenAIRE funding external source. The commits also demonstrate work on configuration files such as XSLT stylesheets.
management-systemopen-accessdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowers
paulo-graca/DSpace
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Contributions:143 pushes, 26 branches in 5 years 5 months
management-systemdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowersinstitutional
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