Bess Sadler
Senior Library Software Engineer at Princeton University
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBess Sadler is a Senior Library Software Engineer with 17 years building open source digital repositories, discovery systems, and research data infrastructure for leading academic institutions. Currently at Princeton, she combines hands-on development, strategic planning, and cross-institutional collaboration to preserve and democratize access to scholarly outputs. A long-time contributor and community organizer in the library tech space (co-founding Project Blacklight and active in code4lib and Islandora), she champions test-driven development, containerized infrastructure, and reproducible research workflows. Known for mentoring teams and translating library needs into sustainable technical architectures, she has guided projects at Stanford, UVA, and numerous university clients through both code and operational practices. Based in Carrboro, NC, she brings a principled commitment to free software and collaborative solutions for long-term scholarly stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MLIS, Library and Informaton Studies, MLIS, Library and Informaton Studies at University of AlbertaBA, Information Systems, Women's Studies, BA, Information Systems, Women's Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMor Institute IT Leadership Program
Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
ruby10
bank10
ruby-client10
ansible-galaxy10
ansible-role10
reserve10
solr10
lucene10
foundation10
rails10
discovery10
blacklight10
controlled10
credit10
dce10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bess/northwest-digital-archives
Apr 2009 - Aug 2009
Contributions:439 commits in 3 months
curationexperts/laevigata
Apr 2017 - Jul 2020
A Hyrax-based ETD repository including deposit workflow
Contributions:58 releases, 623 commits, 782 PRs in 3 years 4 months
etdtushareansible-collectionsdeposithyrax
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