Senior Software Preservation And Emulation Technologist
Belchertown, Massachusetts, United States
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Ethan Gates is a software preservation and emulation librarian with a decade of hands-on experience preserving digital and audiovisual collections in higher education. With an M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from NYU, he has led software preservation work at Yale—moving from analyst to senior technologist and now librarian—combining troubleshooting, documentation, training, and community facilitation around emulation-based access. He teaches and consults widely through freelance work and his writing at The Patch Bay, translating archival best practices into reproducible technical workflows for researchers and libraries. An active participant in the moving-image archiving community (including service on AMIA’s Open Source Committee and roots in XFR Collective), he blends practitioner-level systems skills with a curator’s attention to provenance and context. Notably, he brings rare institutional experience operationalizing emulation for long-term access rather than just bit-level preservation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Master of Arts (M.A.), Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian, English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian, English at Amherst College
A guide to cables and connectors used for audiovisual tech
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 12 commits in 8 months
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Ethan Gates - Senior Software Preservation And Emulation Technologist