Bryan Tarpley
Digital Humanities Librarian at Halcyon Digital
Bryan, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Tarpley is a Digital Humanities Librarian and developer with 12 years of experience at the intersection of computing and literary scholarship, currently leading digital humanities initiatives at Texas A&M University. He blends a BA in Computer Science with advanced study in English (MA and PhD work), enabling him to design and implement Python-driven web applications and research tools that advance humanities inquiry. As a longtime sole proprietor of Halcyon Digital and former software developer/research scientist in digital humanities centers, he pairs hands-on coding and systems experience with scholarly rigor. His work emphasizes theoretical investigation of contemporary American literature while exploring how information technology can revolutionize humanities research. Based in Bryan, Texas, he is notable for moving between academic research roles and practical infrastructure development, ensuring tools are both conceptually grounded and production-ready.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), English, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), English at Texas A&M UniversityMA, English, MA, English at Stephen F. Austin State UniversityBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Harding University
Spanish
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Github Skills (87)
object-graph9
pymongo9
thumbnails9
mongodb9
queue8
django8
vaapi8
mapper8
python8
odm8
nodes8
image-server8
backbonejs7
combinatorics7
web-platform7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bptarpley/corpora
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
The Official Repository for Corpora, a Dataset Studio for the Digital Humanities
Contributions:23 PRs, 94 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
ARC-code/catalog
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
A web service that exposes all of the documents stored in the solr index.
Contributions:9 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
storedweb-servicesolrindex
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