Aharon Varady
Director at The Open Siddur Project
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAharon Varady is a director and community planner with 12 years of experience leading open-source, libre culture projects that center Jewish liturgical practice and the cultural commons. As founding director of the Open Siddur Project he builds platforms that let individuals take creative ownership of spiritual technologies, combining software stewardship with scholarship and publishing. His background in community planning, library/information science, and experiential education informs a multidisciplinary approach to design, outreach, and preservation. He also runs a niche press and teaches creative ritual practices, signaling a rare blend of technical systems work, editorial craft, and hands-on education. Based in Cincinnati, he brings a long-standing commitment to civic and communal infrastructure—both digital and physical—that preserves public domain traditions for contemporary communities.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.C.P. (Master of Community Planning) Planning History Environmental Planning, M.C.P. (Master of Community Planning) Planning History Environmental Planning at University of CincinnatiLibrary and Information Science, Library and Information Science at Drexel UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.) Education, Master of Arts (M.A.) Education at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History. Minors in Geology and Judaic Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History. Minors in Geology and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University
Hebrew
Github Skills (45)
opentype10
fonts10
slugify10
cjk10
latin10
ufo10
phonetics10
unicode10
variable-fonts10
cyrillic10
hebrew10
arabic10
google-fonts9
personalization8
multilingual7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aharonium/fonts
Aug 2014 - Oct 2022
open-source licensed, Unicode fonts in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Amharic scripts
Contributions:80 commits, 3 PRs, 77 pushes in 8 years 3 months
phoneticsvariable-fontsufoopentypelicensed
opensiddur/fonts
Mar 2014 - Oct 2018
open source licensed, unciode fonts in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Amharic scripts
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 7 months
amhariccyrilliclicensedgoogle-fontshebrew
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