Christopher Schilling
Senior Program Officer at Wikimedia Foundation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Schilling is a Senior Program Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation with nine years of experience designing and managing grant programs that support open knowledge projects like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. Grounded in cognitive psychology and memory research, he combines rigorous experimental design and quantitative/qualitative analysis to build assessment tools that improve educational outcomes and community-driven initiatives. He has managed portfolios of 40+ proposals, facilitated participatory granting with volunteer committees, and provides hands-on proposal coaching and due diligence. A former researcher and teaching assistant, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor, programming fluency, and practical project management to scaling learning-centered open-source ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Psychology, Master of Arts (M.A.), Psychology at University of Illinois at ChicagoBachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors, Psychology at Moravian College
Japanese
Github Skills (4)
python-bot4
meta4
wikimedia3
python2
Github contributions (2)
cjschilling/Coding-Exercises
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
jtmorgan/grantsbot
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 15 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pythonwikimediagrant-proposalsproposalsbot
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