Jim Webber
Senior Scientist at Webber Environmental Health Consulting, LLC
Town of Mount Pleasant, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Webber is a Senior Scientist with 15 years of professional experience and a deep academic foundation (PhD in Environmental Health Sciences) who has led impactful environmental chemistry programs and now runs his own consulting practice in Mount Pleasant, NY. He built New York’s asbestos laboratory at the Wadsworth Center and guided it to national prominence for decades, developing rigorous analytical techniques for environmental asbestos detection. In parallel, he contributes to open-source engineering as Chief Scientist at Neo4j, focusing on core back-end database procedures, clustering, and administration to improve reliability in a widely used graph database. Jim blends hands-on laboratory science, regulatory-grade method development, and backend software craftsmanship—an uncommon combination that helps bridge environmental science and data-driven infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Biology, Bachelor's degree, Biology at Wheaton CollegeMaster's degree, Limnology, Master's degree, Limnology at Michigan State UniversityPhD, Environmental Health Sciences, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences at State University of New York at Albany
Github Skills (9)
neo4j10
causal10
javas10
clustering10
java10
testing9
database-design9
raft9
database-administration9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
May 2011 - Mar 2019
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:506 commits, 112 PRs, 153 pushes in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the internal development of procedures within the Neo4j graph database. The commits demonstrate work on refactoring and testing core and read replica procedures, showing efforts to improve code quality and functionality. They also made adjustments related to clustering and database administration, specifically the unbinding of an instance from the cluster. The user’s focus seems to be on maintaining and extending the database's core functionality.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
jimwebber/jimwebber.org
Jun 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:193 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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