Jason Heppler
Senior Developer-Scholar at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJason Heppler is a senior developer-scholar who blends 16 years of software development, digital humanities, and academic research to build interactive web applications and open-source tools for public history and education. As senior web developer at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media he leads full-stack projects, DevOps, and center-wide strategy while teaching digital public history and technical workshops. His background as a historian—PhD from University of Nebraska-Lincoln—and experience at Stanford and UNO inform projects that prioritize access, reproducibility, and community partnerships. He co-founded Endangered Data Week to spotlight threats to public data and has a track record of translating archival research into scalable, data-driven web platforms. Comfortable moving between R, web cartography, and server operations, he mentors students and manages cross-disciplinary teams to deliver sustainable digital scholarship. His work uniquely combines environmental and regional history research with practical engineering that preserves and provably exposes historical data for broader audiences.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD History, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD History at University of Nebraska-LincolnBachelor of Arts - BA History, Bachelor of Arts - BA History at South Dakota State University
English, Norwegian, German
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Github Skills (92)
hugo10
alpinejs10
api9
apiary9
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digital-humanities9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hepplerj/jasonheppler.org
Aug 2012 - Feb 2023
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Contributions:693 commits, 7 PRs, 224 pushes in 10 years 7 months
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