Benjamin Armintor
Director, Digital Library & Scholarly Technologies at Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Armintor is a seasoned software leader and director specializing in digital library and scholarly technologies, with over 20 years in software development and 15+ years focused in research libraries. Based in New York and currently leading Digital Library & Scholarly Technologies at Columbia University, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering with strategic program leadership and six years of team management. His work spans academic and administrative portfolios and includes contributions to notable open-source projects like Blacklight, where he improved accessibility, Solr integrations, and test coverage. A pragmatic collaborator and process improver, he’s as likely to propose a better workflow as he is to ship a pull request—helping institutions adapt to evolving technology while preserving scholarly values.
16 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (12)
ruby-rails10
rails10
solr10
ruby10
rspec9
accessibility8
javascript7
in-memory-database6
sqlite6
blacklight6
jruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
projectblacklight/blacklight
Feb 2015 - Jul 2022
Blacklight provides a discovery interface for any Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr) index.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 87 reviews, 98 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the Blacklight project, a discovery interface for Solr. Their work involved front-end updates like adding aria-labels for accessibility in the search bar and autocomplete components. Additionally, they made back-end improvements by refactoring Solr request parameter construction and modifying route specifications. The user also addressed dependency issues on Windows and implemented integration tests for spellcheck collation features.
solrrubydiscovery-interfacerails-engineblacklight
cul/ldpd-findingaids-asi
Feb 2019 - May 2025
CUL finding aids application
Contributions:14 reviews, 42 PRs, 182 pushes in 6 years 3 months
aidapifindingpython
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