Jonathan Walz
Senior Software Engineer at Center for Open Science
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Walz is a Senior Software Engineer based in Charlottesville, Virginia, with five years of professional experience building reliable back-end systems and infrastructure. He has held roles at Center for Open Science—where he contributes to the notable open-source OSF.io project by refactoring backend workflows, adding serializer fields, and implementing a state machine to improve registration and moderation flows—and earlier worked on tools and infrastructure at Google. His background spans software engineering, test automation, and platform tooling from positions at Seagate and Google, giving him a pragmatic focus on maintainable, production-ready systems. Jonathan pairs an MS in Computer Science with hands-on open-source contributions, demonstrating an ability to improve complex workflows and permissions in established collaborative platforms.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of Colorado at BoulderBachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Calvin College
Github Skills (8)
python10
back-end-development10
django10
apidoc9
state-machine9
api9
database-design8
git7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:609 reviews, 77 commits, 368 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the OSF.io project, focusing on refactoring and expanding existing features. They implemented a state machine within the Sanctions model to improve workflow management and integrated the updated state machine with the registration system. Additional work included adding and modifying serializer fields, enhancing moderator comment handling, and fixing permissions related to the registration update workflow.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
jwalz/osf.io
Jul 2020 - Aug 2024
Facilitating Open Science
Contributions:7 PRs, 577 pushes, 153 branches in 4 years 1 month
opensciencepythonscienceopen-science
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