Christopher Handy
Software Engineer at Leiden University
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Handy is a software engineer and PhD in Religious Studies who builds and maintains research-grade software for low-resource humanities projects, specializing in Buddhist texts and computational linguistics for Sanskrit, Pāli, Chinese, and Tibetan. With nine years of experience at Leiden University and as Technology Director at Helxt, he spans full-stack development, systems administration, HPC, and security testing—favoring simple standards, portability, and open source solutions. He has architected custom engines and APIs (Python/Postgres) for text alignment projects such as the Mahāratnakūṭa Tibetan–Chinese alignment and runs the accompanying Ubuntu-based deployments. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding (C, C#, JavaScript, Django) and ops, he also teaches digital humanities and resurrects legacy research software when needed. Pragmatic and skeptical of fads, he intentionally designs for long-term research reuse in environments where commercial tools fall short. Based in Leiden, he combines deep domain scholarship with practical engineering to enable reproducible, low-resource computational research.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Religious Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Religious Studies at McMaster University
Github Skills (13)
leiden10
ethereum8
universe7
react5
javascript5
typescript4
free-monad2
jam1
irc-bot1
python1
godot1
irc1
expandable1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
handyc/klurp
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
klurp: a text engine for anything
Contributions:275 commits, 1 PR, 543 pushes in 1 year 10 months
handyc/hanb
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:182 commits, 2 PRs, 201 pushes in 1 year
universereacttoyjavascripttypescript
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