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 (72)
creative-commons10
journal10
open-access10
django-models10
zurb-foundation10
plugin10
django9
displays9
wysiwyg9
summernote9
django-project9
adobe-indesign9
internationalization8
datacite8
apc7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openlibhums/commission
Aug 2019 - May 2025
Adds functionality for editors to commission articles.
Contributions:8 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
wordpresseditorscommissionjaneway-plugin
openlibhums/janeway.systems
May 2020 - Mar 2025
Janeway Site
Contributions:4 PRs, 57 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
jekylljaneway
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