Aharon Varady - Director at Cosmographic Design Initiatives

Aharon Varady

Director at Cosmographic Design Initiatives

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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Aharon 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 Cincinnati

Library and Information Science, Library and Information Science at Drexel University

Master 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 (44)

opentype10

fonts10

slugify10

cjk10

latin10

ufo10

phonetics10

variable-fonts10

cyrillic10

hebrew10

arabic10

personalization9

unicode9

google-fonts8

plugin8

Programming languages (2)

PHPHTML

Github contributions (5)

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

aharonium/opensiddur.org

Apr 2017 - Feb 2023

Contributions:1950 commits, 1962 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months

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