I build open-source civic technology that governments and institutions rely on – and I study how software actually behaves in the wild.
I'm Anna Topalidi – a software engineer building participatory-democracy platforms, and an empirical researcher on the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.
I'm a core contributor to Decidim – a UN-recognized Digital Public Good used by 500+ institutions in 31 countries. Within it, I'm one of the developers behind the official Elections component and co-author of the Vocdoni integration – digital voting that city councils and cooperatives run real, binding votes on. IEEE Senior Member. I peer-review for software-engineering journals and judge international hackathons. I care about open source that institutions can depend on.
One of the core developers of Decidim's official Elections component and co-author of the Vocdoni integration. Built weighted voting, Borda count, and census-based ballots for cooperatives and public institutions – plus a dozen community modules used across the Decidim ecosystem.
Technical debt, performance, modular architecture – peer-reviewed. Reviewer for three software-engineering journals.
Open-source work is scattered across dozens of repositories, and GitHub never shows it in one place. Contribfolio pulls it together into a single page – merged pull requests, repositories, reviews, contributor rank – with every number linking back to the GitHub page it came from. Free, no sign-up. The report below is my own.
@antopalidiFrom public GitHub data
Across 1.55M lines of Ruby in five major projects, over half of
acknowledged technical debt takes a form absent from every SATD
taxonomy so far – rubocop:disable. An interactive
companion lets you read the 400 manually validated comments.
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