Andy Byers
Director Of Publishing Technology at Birkbeck, University of London
Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Byers is a Director of Publishing Technology with 11 years of experience building and operating open-source academic publishing platforms, currently leading technical strategy for the Open Library of Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a hands-on Python/Django developer who has designed scalable hosting and preprint services—now powering over 34 Janeway instances and a 4,000+ preprint repository for the California Digital Library. Andy blends platform engineering, security and data‑privacy stewardship with product-focused collaboration across editorial and project teams to streamline peer review, submission and preservation workflows. His background ranges from running high-availability server clusters and Scrum teams to building membership and volunteer systems, which gives him both operational depth and user-centered sensibility. Based in Falkirk, Scotland, he combines open-source advocacy with a practical track record of turning academic publishing needs into reliable, service-oriented software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dioploma in Computing, Computing & Networks, Dioploma in Computing, Computing & Networks at Edinburgh Napier UniversityMultiple Highers, Computing, Multiple Highers, Computing at Knox Academy
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
creative-commons10
journal10
open-access10
plugin9
summernote9
integrate9
django-project9
zurb-foundation9
django8
wysiwyg8
displays7
apc7
ojs7
django-models7
alchemy7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openlibhums/back_content
Aug 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 15 PRs, 24 pushes in 7 years 5 months
janeway-pluginpluginjaneway
openlibhums/reporting
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
A reporting plugin for Janeway.
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 13 PRs in 6 years 2 months
reportingjaneway-pluginpluginjaneway
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