Cole Crawford - Senior AI Software Engineer at Harvard University

Cole Crawford

Senior AI Software Engineer at Harvard University

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

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Cole Crawford is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building production web and GenAI systems, currently shaping agentic and RAG-driven products for clinical trials and previously leading internal AI platform work at Wood Mackenzie. He specializes in backend Python stacks (Django, FastAPI), vector search and NLP with BERT-style models, and AWS-native deployments across ECS Fargate, Lambda, CDK and Terraform, while retaining strong full-stack, DevOps, and data-visualization chops. At Harvard he bridged digital humanities research and engineering—mentoring teams, launching training programs, and delivering bespoke scholarship tools that combine text analysis, IIIF, and web annotation standards. A serial freelancer for academic and cultural institutions, he brings an unusually deep mix of humanities-driven product intuition and practical ML/AI implementation experience, making him effective at turning complex research questions into deployable AI services.

10 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Master’s Degree English (Literature and Culture), Master’s Degree English (Literature and Culture) at Oregon State University

English Literature (British and Commonwealth), English Literature (British and Commonwealth) at University of Glasgow

Wahlert Catholic High School

Master's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Harvard Extension School

Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Informatics; English (British Literature), Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Informatics; English (British Literature) at Creighton University

Spanish

Stackoverflow

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3questions

Github Skills (200)

digital-humanities10

amazon-ecs10

github10

autocomplete10

grass10

giza10

elasticsearch10

github-desktop10

git10

search-engine10

electron10

typescript10

java10

boostrap10

ecr10

Programming languages (12)

TypeScriptJavaCSSRustJavaScriptGoPHPHTML

Github contributions (5)

artshumrc/python-web-apis

Feb 2018 - May 2020

Materials for "Using Web APIs with Python" workshop. Originally offered by @jaguillette and @ColeDCrawford as part of Boston DH Week 2018.

Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 3 months

apipythonworkshopflaskpython3

artshumrc/tei-web-editor

Aug 2017 - Jan 2021

Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months

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