John Chodacki
Director, University Of California Curation Center (UC3)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Chodacki is a seasoned leader at the intersection of research infrastructure, scholarly communication, and open science, with nine years in his current UC3 director role and a long history in digital publishing and product leadership. He builds and governs sustainable, trusted services for digital curation, preservation, and research data management across the University of California system while convening global communities and shaping policy through boards like DataCite and FORCE11. Comfortable shifting between strategic vision and operational delivery, he has guided partnerships and funded initiatives such as Dryad’s NSF award and brought product rigor from roles at PLOS, O’Reilly, and Safari Books. Based in San Francisco, he combines an MBA and multidisciplinary liberal arts background to translate complex scholarly needs into pragmatic, scalable services—and quietly bridges academic research and practical product design through active affiliations like BIDS.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Anthropology, African-American Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Anthropology, African-American Studies at Grinnell CollegeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations at San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of BusinessDigital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Boston University
Github Skills (8)
makers9
rails6
ruby5
datacite5
jekyll3
governance3
liquid2
plotly-dash1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pidapalooza/website
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:115 commits, 4 PRs, 111 pushes in 2 years 5 months
chodacki/supportersguide
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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