Andrew Gunther
Lead Application Developer, API, Stack And Application Architect Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Gunther is a lead application developer and architect with nearly three decades of experience marrying museum collection practice with scalable engineering, currently running API and metadata services for the Smithsonian’s Enterprise Digital Access Network (EDAN). He designs and implements high-throughput search, indexing, and image-delivery systems that serve 50+ million public assets, and spearheaded Smithsonian-wide Open Access and IIIF adoption. Deeply proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Solr/Lucene, Kafka, Aerospike and both SQL/NoSQL design, he builds schema-less, syncable data stores and production-grade RESTful APIs that suit teams from small research groups to large institutional producers. Previously he led digital imaging and rapid-capture workflow initiatives at Harvard Art Museums and cut his teeth in museum IT and archiving at the Met and NYC arts organizations. Beyond system architecture, he’s known for pragmatic rapid prototyping, end-to-end stack fluency (including C/C++ image tiling engines), and a strong focus on optimizing cultural heritage workflows through technology.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MILS, Library and Information Science, MILS, Library and Information Science at Pratt InstituteUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
English
Github Skills (11)
open-access10
data-access9
data-repository9
schema7
json7
api6
json-schema6
mautic5
hubspot5
proxy5
analytics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Smithsonian/OpenAccess
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Smithsonian Open Access Data Repository
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 554 pushes in 4 months
data-accesssmithsoniandata-repositoryopen-access
Smithsonian/ProjectMirador
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 5 months
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