Faolan Cheslack-postava
Senior Develoepr at Digital Scholar
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolFaolan Cheslack-postava is a senior developer with 15 years of experience building web applications and digital tools across the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He spent over a decade at the Center for History and New Media, including work as a Zotero web developer, and now leads development at Digital Scholar where he focuses on scholarly and digital-preservation projects. His background in Computer Science (BSE, University of Michigan) underpins a strong blend of front‑ and back‑end skills applied to long‑running, user-focused platforms. Faolan is experienced in evolving research-oriented codebases into maintainable, production systems and often works at the intersection of software engineering and academic workflows. Colleagues know him for steady stewardship of complex projects and for translating scholarly needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science, BSE, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (88)
citeproc-js10
citations10
organize10
citeproc10
jsinterop10
javascript9
api9
csl9
react9
flarum9
dotnet8
translators8
python8
jquery-mobile8
styles8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zotero/citeproc-js-server
Dec 2010 - Nov 2015
Web service to generate citations and bibliographies using citeproc-js
Contributions:138 commits, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
citeproccitationsbibliographiesweb-servicecsl
fcheslack/libZotero
Apr 2011 - Apr 2016
Contributions:346 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 5 years 1 month
apipythonjavascriptphpjavascript-libraries
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