Ethan Gates
Senior Software Preservation And Emulation Technologist
Belchertown, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEthan 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 UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian, English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian, English at Amherst College
Russian
Github Skills (55)
markdown10
ffmpeg10
signal10
jekyll10
scrape9
github-pages9
audio9
gitpod9
connectors8
handlebars8
vuejs27
scraper7
ubuntu7
cli7
macos7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
EG-tech/homebrew-digipres
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
amiaopensource/cable-bible
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
A guide to cables and connectors used for audiovisual tech
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 12 commits in 8 months
audiovisualconnectorscablesaudio
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