Javier Ruedas
Information Specialist, Digital Projects - Libraries & Museums
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJavier Ruedas is an information-focused full-stack developer and digital projects specialist with eight years of experience building web applications, teaching immersive web and DevOps bootcamps, and founding a digital services practice. Currently at UTSA Libraries & Museums, he blends software skills (Spring Boot, PHP/MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Python) with archival and metadata expertise to deliver map-driven historical data tools and automated ETL pipelines into NoSQL stores. He holds an MS in Information Studies (4.0) and brings professional ethnographic interviewing and archival preservation experience to shape user-centered information architectures. As an instructor and curriculum author, he has a track record of turning complex backend concepts into teachable, practical workflows and improving UX through measurable front-end optimizations. Trilingual and culturally fluent, he combines fieldwork-era sensitivity from anthropology with modern API integrations (Wikipedia, Spotify, Mapbox) to make cultural data both discoverable and usable.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology, 3.74, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology, 3.74 at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science (MS), Information Studies, 4.0, Master of Science (MS), Information Studies, 4.0 at University of Texas at Austin - School of InformationDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology at Tulane University
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, marubo, German
Github Skills (11)
js10
spring-boot10
java9
spring9
frontend9
unit-testing8
unit-test8
tdd7
javascript5
python-scripts4
script3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jruedas1/react-course
May 2023 - Jul 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
jruedas1/devops-class-project
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:25 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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