Summary
Jefferson Bailey is a seasoned leader in digital preservation and web archiving with 12 years of experience building programs and services at the Internet Archive and major cultural institutions. As Director of Archiving & Data Services he blends product and program management with hands-on technical stewardship of large-scale archival systems and research services for scholarly communications. His background spans non-profit technology, grant-funded initiatives, and business development, giving him a rare fluency in both operational delivery and funding strategy. Trained in archives and preservation (MLIS) and grounded in humanities (BA), he moves between policy, metadata practice, and infrastructure design to keep at-risk web and scholarly records accessible. Not an obvious detail: his career path includes early roles in financial services and corporate due diligence, which inform his disciplined approach to risk, compliance, and scalable workflows.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, History, BA, English, History at Oberlin College
MLIS, Archives, Preservation, & Records Management, MLIS, Archives, Preservation, & Records Management at University of Pittsburgh