Greg Leppert
Executive Director at Baukunst
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorGreg Leppert is an executive technology leader who brings 16 years of product, design, and engineering experience to Harvard, where he now champions library values—provenance, veracity, and equitable access—applied to AI and institutional data. He combines a rare creative background (design, music industry work, a gold record, and letterpress printing) with hard product outcomes, including selling Svpply to eBay and leading that team within eBay NYC. Greg has founded and advised multiple startups and agencies—spanning naming consultancy, hardware prototyping, and digital art infrastructure—demonstrating zero-to-one brand and product craft for companies that scaled to unicorn value. At Harvard he serves as Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative and Chief Technologist at the Berkman Klein Center, bridging scholarship, policy, and engineering. Known for hands-on interface and infrastructure work as well as cultural fluency, he often operates where humanities rigor meets technical systems engineering. Based in Cambridge, MA, he thrives on translating archival and design sensibilities into practical, trustworthy data and AI systems.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
805reputation
165kreached
17answers
1question
ajax
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
package-manager10
python10
ruby10
luminus10
h2o10
macos10
linux10
naming10
homebrew10
ring9
frontend9
svn9
emacs-lisp9
rocks9
slack-bot9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
leppert/WordPress-OCR-Plugin
Dec 2009 - Oct 2019
A WordPress OCR plugin for extracting the text from attached images using Tesseract. Official mirror of the svn version at wordpress.org.
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 9 years 11 months
wordpressocrsvntesseract
leppert/perma-capture
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 141 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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