Joel Lee
Data Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Lee is a data engineer based in Boston with eight years of experience blending computational skills and humanities research to build data-driven scholarship. Currently at Northeastern University's Digital Scholarship Group, he designs and implements engineering solutions that support library-led digital projects and archival workflows. His background includes multi-year digital humanities research and fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and project development at Penn’s Price Lab, giving him deep domain fluency in cultural heritage data. Trained in both English literature and computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, he brings a rare mix of rigorous textual analysis and practical engineering. Joel’s work often surfaces at the intersection of research questions and reproducible tooling, enabling scholars to scale humanities inquiry with modern data practices.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Literature and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Literature and Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (11)
approximate5
nearest-neighbor-search1
jekyll1
python1
streamlit1
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search1
visualizations1
react1
folium1
jekyll-theme1
rendering1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Digital-Humanities-Quarterly/DHQ-similar-papers
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
The recommendation system for the Digital Humanities Quarterly journal.
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
joelsjlee/LeetTopic
Dec 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 11 branches in 8 months
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