Jay Pfaffman
Owner at Literate Computing, LLC
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJay Pfaffman is the owner of Literate Computing, LLC and a full-time Discourse consultant who handles installation, hosting, migrations, and ongoing support for academic and community forums. With 10 years of experience and a Ph.D. in Education and Human Development from Vanderbilt, he blends educational research insight with hands-on DevOps to deliver scalable, reliable Discourse deployments. He contributes to the Discourse ecosystem by automating installations, developing plugins and themes, and enhancing importers for legacy platforms such as Kunena, Mbox, BBPress, and MyBB to improve data portability and performance. Based in Nashville, TN, he specializes in helping educational institutions and researchers move data and communities onto Discourse. His background in academia and his open-source work demonstrate a rare combination of instructional rigor and production-grade engineering. This blend enables him to build user-centered forum solutions that sit at the intersection of research, education, and community building.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Education and Human Development, Ph.D., Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
mysql10
ruby10
sql10
discourse10
php9
database-management9
rails58
ruby-rails8
postgresql8
rails7
ruby-on-rails7
ssh6
emacs6
html5
javascripts5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 63 PRs, 43 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily worked on improving and extending import scripts for various forum platforms, including Kunena, Mbox, BBPress, MyBB, and others. Their contributions involved configuring import scripts using environment variables, enhancing error checking and reporting, and adding permalink support. They refactored and improved existing codebase for better performance and handling of various data formats.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
pfaffman/aect2015
Jun 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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