Gabriela Montoya
Service Manager For Digitial Initiatives
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriela Montoya is an experienced service manager specializing in digital repositories, digitization, and digital preservation with over 12 years in technology roles across the University of California system. She currently leads digital initiatives at UC San Diego while also supporting contributor services for the California Digital Library, blending hands-on metadata expertise (EAD, MODS, PREMIS, XML, RDF) with practical DAMS operations. Her career began in records management and programming analysis at UCLA and UC Berkeley, giving her rare crosswalk knowledge between archival practice and systems implementation. Gabriela’s linguistic background (BA in Linguistics with a Spanish minor) informs a meticulous approach to metadata schema design and multilingual access. Colleagues rely on her to translate preservation standards into maintainable, auditable workflows that scale across academic collections. She is known for bridging archival theory and pragmatic engineering to keep digital assets discoverable and trustworthy over time.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Linguistics with a minor in Spanish, BA, Linguistics with a minor in Spanish at University of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (44)
foundation9
rails9
blacklight9
ruby-on-rails8
ruby8
san8
diego7
tire6
python6
hydra6
vagrant5
ansible5
vms5
linux5
conda5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gamontoya/ingest_deploy
Nov 2019 - Jun 2023
Harvester infrastructure ansible playbooks
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
vagrantdevopsansibleinfrastructureharvester
ucsdlib/ops-requests
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 days
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