Jason Priem
Co-Founder at OpenAlex
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Priem is a co-founder and software builder focused on tools that accelerate the Open Science movement, bringing 14 years of experience at the intersection of research, education, and web technology. Based in Vancouver, he leads OpenAlex, a project that reimagines scholarly metadata infrastructure to make research more discoverable and interoperable. His background spans doctoral research at UNC Chapel Hill, instructional design, web and graphic design, and classroom teaching, giving him a rare blend of academic empathy and product-first engineering. Jason’s work emphasizes open data and sustainable infrastructure rather than proprietary silos, reflecting a mission-driven approach to software. He combines deep domain knowledge of scholarly communication with practical experience shipping community-oriented web tools. Quietly, his career arc—from middle-school teacher to open science entrepreneur—underscores a long-term commitment to improving how knowledge is organized and shared.
14 years of coding experience
The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMasters of Education Social Sciences Education, Masters of Education Social Sciences Education at University of Florida
Github Skills (65)
backend10
suffix10
backend-api10
firefox10
gitbook10
pdf10
chrome-extension10
yaml9
api9
edtech9
frontend9
django8
emacs8
digital-humanities8
jekyll8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ourresearch/plan-s-journal-checker
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Website to helps authors find journals that meet their funder OA requirements
Contributions:80 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
authorsmeetjavascriptjournals
ourresearch/openalex-website
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
An open, comprehensive catalog of scholarship, connecting papers, authors, institutions, and journals.
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 57 pushes in 1 year
institutionsauthorsscholarshipcatalogcomprehensive
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