Julia Damerow
Lead Scientific Software Engineer at Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolJulia Damerow is a Lead Scientific Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying software development and machine learning to digital humanities and the history and philosophy of science. She holds a PhD in computational HPS and blends academic rigor with practical engineering, leading development at Arizona State University and co-founding consulting firm A Place Called Up to help scholars deliver digital projects. As Head of Development for DigInG she designs and prototypes research tools and mentors engineering teams to enable large-scale, reproducible scholarship. Her background ranges from Java Eclipse RCP desktop apps to Python web stacks and model-driven development, reflecting a knack for translating scholarly questions into robust, reusable software. Based in Tempe, she pairs deep domain knowledge with hands-on delivery, often building infrastructure that lets historians ask questions at scales previously impractical.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational/Digital History and Philosophy of Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational/Digital History and Philosophy of Science at Arizona State UniversityDiplom (FH), Computer Science (Media Informatics) with emphasis Software Engineering, Diplom (FH), Computer Science (Media Informatics) with emphasis Software Engineering at Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (81)
scientific-publications10
interpretation10
digital-humanities10
isis10
grass10
creative-commons10
web-platform10
corpus10
umbrella10
ats10
pdf-files10
java10
prebuild10
fundamentals9
wordnet9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
diging/giles-eco-nepomuk
Nov 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:11 releases, 14 reviews, 67 PRs in 8 years 1 month
giles-ecosystemjavaspring
dh-tech/dh-tech.github.io
Aug 2017 - Feb 2023
The international grass-roots community of Digital Humanities software engineers.
Contributions:34 reviews, 122 commits, 148 PRs in 5 years 6 months
hands-onhumanitiesfundamentalsatsgrass
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