Simone Persiani is an AI Engineer with 10 years of software experience and a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna, specializing in NLP, Semantic Web and knowledge/data engineering. He blends academic research—improving biomedical citation corpora—with practical backend development, having contributed authorization logic and stream utilities to the open-source CommunitySolidServer project. Comfortable across Java-based enterprise backends and modern web stacks, Simone has worked in both industry roles and research fellowships, delivering robust REST services and tooling. Based in the Greater Bologna area, he pairs strong academic honors with hands-on engineering, often focusing on bridging semantic technologies with production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Bologna
Laurea Magistrale LM, Artificial Intelligence M, 110/110 e Lode, Laurea Magistrale LM, Artificial Intelligence M, 110/110 e Lode at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Diploma di maturità, Liceo Scientifico con Potenziamento in matematica e fisica, 100/100, Diploma di maturità, Liceo Scientifico con Potenziamento in matematica e fisica, 100/100 at Liceo Scientifico Statale E.Fermi (BO)
An open and modular implementation of the Solid specifications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:33 reviews, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to the backend of the Solid server, focusing on utility functions and authorization logic. Their work involved implementing a `promiseSome` utility for handling promises and refactoring the `WebAclAuthorizer` to support agent group ACL rules. They also added a `readableToQuads` function and other utilities for Stream and Handler management. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the server's core functionality and authorization capabilities.
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