Jonathan Blaney
Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer at University of Cambridge
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJonathan Blaney is a Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer based in London with a decade of experience combining computational methods and archival scholarship. He is lead author of Doing Digital History (Manchester University Press, 2021) and applies practical tooling—Python, CLI, SQL, XSLT, AWK—to research data analysis and transformation. His career spans academic and service institutions, including current work at Cambridge Digital Humanities and prior senior data management and digital projects leadership roles at Jisc and the University of London. Jonathan excels at making text-as-data workflows reproducible and accessible, translating scholarly needs into robust, scriptable pipelines. He also consults on research data practices, bringing both hands‑on engineering and an understanding of long-term digital preservation. A penchant for lightweight, text‑centric tooling reveals a focus on pragmatic, high‑signal solutions over heavyweight platforms.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
api10
digital-humanities10
network-analysis10
linked-open-data10
python9
website-hosting9
hosting9
data-management9
historian9
ckan9
open-source7
journal3
creative-commons2
academia2
open-access2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ihr-digital/digital-history
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
Data files accompanying the book Doing Digital History.
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
jonathanblaney/bitsandbobs
Oct 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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