Jean Bauer
Product Architect at Akamai Technologies
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJean Bauer is a Product Architect with 16 years of experience designing data-first products, leading cross-functional teams, and turning messy datasets into actionable insights. Currently at Akamai on the Database Evolution Team, Jean combines database architecture expertise with program management and InfoSec experience to build robust, extensible systems. A former founder and digital humanities director at Princeton and Brown, Jean has a rare blend of technical, research, and organizational leadership—having launched a university-wide Year of Data and grown teams and grant programs from the ground up. Their background in early American history and photography informs a meticulous, archival approach to data modeling and storytelling. Known for wrangling people into powerhouse teams, Jean prioritizes efficiency, ethics, and clarity when translating complex requirements into practical solutions. Based in New Jersey, they bring academic depth (PhD) to enterprise product architecture and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at King SchoolA.B., History, A.B., History at University of ChicagoPhD, Early American History, PhD, Early American History at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (24)
relational-databases7
csv6
hierarchy6
django6
charts6
voronoi6
visualization6
label6
javascript6
digital-humanities5
python3
responsive-design3
solr3
cds2
citations2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jabauer/DAVILA
Apr 2010 - Feb 2017
DAVILA is an open source relational database schema visualization and annotation tool. It is written in Processing using the toxiclibs physics library and released under the GPLv3.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 6 years 11 months
relational-databasesvisualization
jabauer/ProjectQuincy
May 2017 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 62 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 10 months
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