Ian Scott
Python Developer Information Technologist I
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Scott is a Python developer and former tenured academic who blends 14 years of hands-on web application development with two decades of research, teaching, and scholarly publishing in early Christianity and Judaism. At Michigan State University he contributes to open research infrastructure, and previously led development of Paideia Greek and a digital repository for ancient Jewish literature, demonstrating a rare ability to translate specialized humanities needs into production software. He has experience shaping API standards for textual data, pairing backend Python work with thoughtful data modeling for scholarly texts. Based in Ontario, he’s transitioning fully into software development and seeks roles where his domain expertise, open-research ethos, and proven record of sustaining complex web projects can accelerate teams building tools for the humanities and beyond.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Religious Studies (Early Christianity and Early Judaism), PhD, Religious Studies (Early Christianity and Early Judaism) at McMaster UniversityMaster of Christian Studies, New Testament, Master of Christian Studies, New Testament at Regent College
English, German, French, Greek, Hebrew, aramaic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (127)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MESH-Research/knowledge-commons-works
May 2023 - Mar 2025
The next-generation research repository for the Knowledge Commons (formerly Humanities Commons)
Contributions:52 PRs, 629 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
MESH-Research/invenio-record-importer-kcworks
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:246 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 1 year 1 month
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