Christopher Ota
Librarian at City of Pleasanton
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Ota is an experienced public librarian based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 15 years in public libraries and nine years of formal experience documented across municipal systems. He builds community-focused programs for children and adults—ranging from storytimes and ESL clubs to speaker series and computer classes—while managing acquisitions, budgeting, volunteers, and outreach. Known for a personable, upbeat leadership style, he fosters staff confidence and teamwork and has served in supervisory and civic roles such as President of a town employees foundation. Holding an M.L.I.S. from San José State and a background in modern literature from UC Santa Cruz, he blends strong programming instincts with collection stewardship and digital/media acquisitions. Notably, his practice emphasizes measurable public engagement: if the community is happy, mission success follows.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Public Libraries, Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Public Libraries at San José State UniversityUniversity of California Santa CruzProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
christopherota/ViennaGUIv2.0
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
This is an application that creates GUI for ViennaRNA package. Reiteration of previous groups work with additional functionality and UI changes.
Contributions:62 commits, 89 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 month
christopherota/Portfolio
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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