John Simpson
Director, Digital Research Services at University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolJohn Simpson is a strategic leader in digital research infrastructure with 11 years of experience building services that help researchers move from funding ideas to deployment and data dissemination. As Director of Digital Research Services at the University of Alberta and former senior advisor to a national funder, he combines policy insight with hands-on program delivery across national computing ecosystems. He has a strong humanities-and-social-sciences focus within research computing, translating complex technical environments into accessible support for interdisciplinary teams. A PhD philosopher with training in disruptive strategy, he pairs rigorous conceptual thinking with practical service design and a track record of growing programs and partnerships under ambiguity. Notably, he has taught programming to humanities researchers and scaled community-oriented initiatives—from university courses to summer camps—demonstrating an unusual blend of pedagogy, outreach, and infrastructure leadership.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Philosophy, PhD, Philosophy at University of AlbertaOther; Certificate in Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen, Complete, Other; Certificate in Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen, Complete at Harvard Business School OnlineMA, Philosophy, MA, Philosophy at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (80)
alpha10
spanish10
stable10
ftps9
ftp9
high-performance9
shell9
websocket9
sftp9
smtp9
curl9
jstree9
user-agent9
ldap9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ComputeCanada/dhsi-coding-fundamentals-2018
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
symulation/UofA-PHIL366-F16
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:102 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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