Jacob Sanford
Senior Technical Operations Manager
New Brunswick, Canada
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Top SchoolJacob Sanford is a Senior Technical Operations Manager with 15 years of experience building scalable, sustainable IT workflows and developer-centric environments at the University of New Brunswick. He combines hands-on development (PHP/Drupal, Python) and infrastructure design (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) to optimize performance, security, and team productivity while supervising and mentoring developer teams. A pragmatic technologist, Jacob evaluates hardware, software, and connectivity to prescribe cost-effective strategies that keep projects interchangeable with institutional standards. He is an active open-source contributor to the Drupal ecosystem and runs a consulting practice that informs his pragmatic approach to real-world deployments. Deeply curious, Jacob applies his PhD-trained analytical rigor to generative AI work—particularly RAG and LLM-powered summarization—to turn complex information into accessible, actionable knowledge.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical/Computational Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical/Computational Chemistry at University of New Brunswick
English, French
Stackoverflow
134reputation
7kreached
4answers
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Github Skills (127)
academia10
history10
amazon-route5310
ghcr10
alias10
amazon10
drupal10
api9
controller9
composer9
travis-ci9
archives9
docker9
php9
medicine9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
unb-libraries/docker-imagemagick
Oct 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
JacobSanford/islandora_attach_datastream
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
drushislandoradatastreamfedora
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