Stefano Cossu
Digital Repository Architect at Harvard University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStefano Cossu is a Digital Repository Architect at Harvard University with 11 years of experience bridging software engineering and the humanities. Trained as a sculptor and painter in Italy and Germany, he brings a practiced visual and material sensibility to designing durable, user-centered digital archives. He pairs hands-on systems work—evidenced by C-level contributions to a C hashmap implementation—with large-scale solutions architecture for institutional repositories. Based in Philadelphia, he excels at translating scholarly needs into robust, maintainable infrastructure and metadata workflows. Colleagues know him for blending analog humanist methods with pragmatic engineering rigor to solve tricky preservation and iteration problems.
11 years of coding experience
diploma (BFA), Painting, diploma (BFA), Painting at Accademia di BB.AA. di SassariAufbaustudium (MFA), Sculpture, Aufbaustudium (MFA), Sculpture at Kunstakademie Stuttgart
English, Italian, German
Github Skills (7)
c1710
algorithm10
hashtable10
data-structures10
algorithms10
c1110
data-structure10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tidwall/hashmap.c
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Hash map implementation in C.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the implementation and maintenance of a C-based hashmap library. They modified the hashmap functions, including `hashmap_get` and `hashmap_set`, to improve their functionality and consistency. Further contributions included adding an iteration function and correcting errors related to it, demonstrating an understanding of data structure implementation and iteration logic. The user also addressed minor issues, such as correcting a cursor increase and adding a comment for `hashmap_delete`.
hashhash-maphash-functionsmaphash-table
scossu/lakesuperior
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Lakesuperior, an alternative Fedora Repository implementation
Contributions:16 releases, 255 commits, 126 PRs in 4 years 5 months
fedora-repositoryfedora
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