David Schober
Senior Product Manager at Internet Archive
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Schober is a senior product manager with 11 years of experience building digital repositories, media platforms, and large web properties at the intersection of libraries, publishing, and nonprofit organizations. He has led cloud migrations, open-source collaborations, and Northwestern’s pioneering AI-backed semantic search for digital collections, securing competitive national grant funding along the way. Comfortable translating complex technical constraints into strategic roadmaps, he has owned product direction for projects like the Avalon Media System and preservation-first repository fronts. David pairs hands-on programmatic problem solving (built automation and data workflows earlier in his career) with stakeholder-facing leadership across academia, journalism, and global nonprofits. Based in the Chicago area, he’s presented his work internationally and repeatedly turned archival complexity into usable, standards-driven products. His background in liberal arts and journalism informs a user-centered approach to technical product strategy that emphasizes discoverability and long-term stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Minors in History and Philosophy, BA, English, Minors in History and Philosophy at Winona State UniversityMA, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, MA, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Northwestern University
Github Skills (80)
pandora10
wave10
audio-player10
media-library10
iiif9
stitches9
transcoding9
elasticsearch9
viewer9
imgix9
react9
graphql9
elixir9
csharp9
video-player9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
davidschober/recipes
Nov 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:57 PRs, 524 pushes, 30 branches in 3 years
nulib/nuldc
Feb 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 releases, 39 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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