Jeff Zucker
Software Developer, Project Team Member at Virtual Production Services LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Zucker is a multidisciplinary software developer and cultural anthropologist based in Portland, Oregon, with seven years of recent engineering experience and a long track record supporting non-profits and international organizations. He combines hands-on backend work—recently contributing parsing, fetcher, and non-HTTP resource support to the popular linked-data rdflib.js project—with deep experience building databases, internet applications, and online learning systems. As a founding CTO and longtime consultant he has delivered software and training for institutions from UNICEF and UNESCO to Columbia University and municipal agencies. He is also an accomplished writer and educator with five published books and over a decade of teaching experience, bringing clarity to technical and policy issues around technology and society. Currently engaged with Solid to help re-decentralize the web and with local conservation and media initiatives in Oregon, he blends open-source craft with mission-driven work. An anthropologist by training, he uniquely frames technical decisions through cultural and policy lenses, helping teams build socially aware, sustainable systems.
7 years of coding experience
Hamden High SchoolB.A., Cultural Anthropology, B.A., Cultural Anthropology at Reed CollegeM.A., Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics, M.A., Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics at Washington State University
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
linked-data10
typescript-types9
data-parsing9
typescript9
typescripts9
api8
json-ld8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
linkeddata/rdflib.js
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
Linked Data API for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 25 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily worked on updating and improving the `fetcher.js` and `fetcher.ts` files, likely for data retrieval and interaction with external resources. They implemented support for non-HTTP resources in the `update-manager.ts` file. Additionally, the user made changes to the `jsonldparser.js` file and fixed an issue related to `putBack` functionality within the fetcher component. These changes suggest a focus on data handling, parsing, and potentially data storage and retrieval within the linked data context of the repository.
json-ldapidata-apidatalinked-data
solid/webid-profile
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:36 reviews, 112 commits, 21 PRs in 10 months
social-network-analysisagentsocialdiscoverysocial-media
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