James Tauber
PHD Candidate
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Tauber is a seasoned software leader and PhD candidate with two decades of experience building web applications, leading open-source projects, and applying linguistics and data science to textual scholarship. As founder and former CEO/CTO of Eldarion he scaled product and engineering efforts for dozens of clients and consumer-facing apps while also driving the open-sourcing of major platforms such as edX. He currently directs digital humanities and educational software at Signum University and leads the Digital Tolkien and Greek Learner Texts projects, blending scholarly rigor with practical tooling. A long-time contributor to the Django/Pinax ecosystem, his open-source work spans back-end, theming, and conference tooling—reflecting deep full-stack fluency. Trained in corpus linguistics, philology, and music theory, he combines rigorous academic methods with hands-on engineering and product strategy to make languages and texts more discoverable and usable.
20 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Linguistics and Mathematics, BSc (Hons) Linguistics and Mathematics at The University of Western AustraliaCourseraCourt of Master SommeliersNapa Valley Wine AcademyedXHigher Education Teaching Certificate, Higher Education Teaching Certificate at Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and LearningUdacityProfessional Certificate Music Theory and Composition, Professional Certificate Music Theory and Composition at Berklee College of MusicCertificate Educational Research Methodology, Certificate Educational Research Methodology at University of Illinois ChicagoStanford OnlineMaster of Arts - MA Corpus Linguistics, Master of Arts - MA Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster UniversityPGDip Greek, PGDip Greek at Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant / University of Wales Trinity Saint DavidBiochemistry Genetics, Biochemistry Genetics at Harvard Medical School ExtensionGradDip Germanic Philology, GradDip Germanic Philology at Signum University
English, Greek, norse, old, English, gothic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
blogger10
bootstrap10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
data-modeling10
css10
front-end-development10
html10
blogpost10
bootstra10
blogspot10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pinax/pinax
Mar 2008 - Mar 2017
a Django-based platform for rapidly developing websites
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1011 commits, 7 PRs, 44 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:James contributed to multiple aspects of the Pinax platform, demonstrating full-stack capabilities. Their work included updating version numbers, modifying templates and settings for different projects (zero_project, account_project, basic_project), integrating analytics, and adding styling for various features like accounts and blog posts. The user also worked on theming and updating the core infrastructure to accommodate new theme requirements.
djangopythondeveloping
pinax/pinax-blog
Dec 2009 - Jul 2016
a blog app for Django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 14 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the back-end functionality of the Django-based blog application. They focused on enhancing the post ordering in feeds, fixing a potential exception, and updating the version number. Additionally, the user provided updates to the README file, providing additional context for the app. This suggests a focus on improving core application features and maintainability.
djangoblog-apppython
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