Simone Franza
PHD Student at ISEC TU Graz
Graz, Styria, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Franza is a multilingual PhD student and software developer based in Graz with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and research tools, primarily using Vue, Node.js and MongoDB. His work bridges applied research and software engineering—recently contributing to system and side-channel security studies at TU Graz while previously developing collaborative research platforms and a cloud certification product at Know Center. An active open-source contributor, he localized the popular Destiny Item Manager project to Italian, demonstrating practical i18n expertise across HTML and JS codebases. He also has a strong teaching background in programming and HCI, having supported courses in C, C++, Scala, Prolog, and data science. Fluent in Italian, German and English (with knowledge of Russian and ongoing French studies), he pairs technical depth with cultural and linguistic agility that helps make research and tools accessible to diverse users.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Pass with Distinction, Master's degree, Computer Science, Pass with Distinction at Technische Universität GrazBachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Pass with Distinction, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Pass with Distinction at Graz University of Technology
Italian, German, English, Russian, French
Github Skills (12)
internationalization10
localization10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
html9
react8
des5
dsdt5
dex5
dse5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DestinyItemManager/DIM
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Destiny Item Manager
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to the localization of the application, translating text strings and UI elements into Italian. They focused on modifying HTML and JavaScript files to incorporate Italian translations for various sections, including the about, support, and settings pages, as well as updating the i18n files to include Italian versions of the application's text. The user's work aimed to make the application accessible to Italian-speaking users. The user appears to have a good understanding of the application's i18n implementation and has effectively translated a large portion of the UI.
reactbungieitemdestinytypescript
simonefranza/three-shader-graph
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:63 commits, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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