As part of the IT team at the Institute for Biomedicine of Eurac Research, I worked primarily on the CHRIS-2D project, which involved the creation of a “dynamic data portal”, a web app enabling researchers, even from outside institutions, to peruse a set of the data gathered by Eurac’s IfB studies.

Due to the small size of our development team, we decided to build the portal as a full-stack Django application, that included an HTTP API to be queried by complementary internal tools. I played a significant role in deciding the project’s architecture and implementation; it’s been a real benchmark of my skills that was ultimately a success, and I’m quite proud of what was achieved.

I worked for the Openpolis Foundation, supporting their editorial team by developing multiple web applications and toolkits using Python and Django.

Those are the most relevant projects I was involed in:

• “Mappe del potere”: essentially a database of all things related to Italian politicians, modeled following the Popolo open specification. It essentially consists of a core implemented as an open-source Django app, a complex REST API that exposes the underlying data, and a custom-built task manager to handle and scheduling background tasks. The data was gathered from numerous different sources (HTTP APIs, SPARQL, web scraping) by ETL pipelines.
• “Povertà educativa”: a project that shares a lot of components and concepts with the previously listed one, but with a particular focus on the socio-economic conditions of minors in Italy.
• “A schede scoperte”: an application implemented in Django and React, with the purpose of promoting transparency during the 2018 Italian general elections.

This was a pivotal role for my career, as I was lucky enough to have an expert mentor who taught me a lot of extremely valuable skills that I consider fundamental to my profile.