Raffaele Mancuso
Assistant Professor at University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna)
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolRaffaele Mancuso is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna with six years of experience blending academic research and hands-on software engineering. He contributes to open-source projects that serve the research community—improving build automation for the Sioyek PDF viewer and hardening the pybliometrics Scopus API wrapper—demonstrating attention to reproducible tooling and robust backend behavior. Comfortable with build systems, installation automation, and resilient HTTP clients, he focuses on practical fixes that improve developer ergonomics and cross-platform reliability. Based in Bologna and educated at Politecnico di Milano, he brings an academic rigor to engineering problems and a knack for improving developer workflows behind the scenes.
7 years of coding experience
Politecnico di Milano
Github Skills (13)
gnu-make10
bash10
wrapper10
qt10
python10
makefile10
build-automation10
http-request10
pdf-viewer9
error-handling9
pdf9
code-optimization8
configuration-management7
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
pybliometrics-dev/pybliometrics
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Python-based API-Wrapper to access Scopus
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 16 PRs, 62 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Raffaele primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the pybliometrics library. They addressed several bugs, including fixing an issue with merging author profiles and handling HTTP errors. The user also enhanced the code by adding new features, such as the `.alias` property, and improving request handling using requests.Session() with timeout. Further contributions involved code enhancements and improvements, such as filtering non-digits in author retrieval and configuring the timeout from the configuration file.
pythonscopusscopus-apibibliometricsapi-wrapper
ahrm/sioyek
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Role in this project:Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 17 PRs, 37 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Raffaele focused on improving the build and installation process for the Sioyek PDF viewer. This included automating the installation of keybindings for non-US keyboards, modifying the build configuration to enable `sudo make install`, and ensuring the correct `qmake` binary was used. Additionally, they improved the tutorial and compilation script.
pdf-viewerpdfresearch-paper
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