Julian Gautier
Product Research Specialist at Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Gautier is a Product Research Specialist with nine years of experience applying user-centered research and information architecture to open-source and institutional digital platforms. Based in Boston, he drives usability testing, interviews, collaborative design, and analytics into agile development for Harvard's Dataverse, helping make research data more discoverable and preserved. He pairs rigorous academic training in information science with hands-on metadata work—optimizing a 1900-term controlled vocabulary at LA Metro and automating metadata entry with Applescript and Python to cut processing time by a third. A contributor to the widely used IQSS/dataverse project, Julian strengthens documentation, API examples, and metadata guidance to improve adoption and interoperability. He’s equally comfortable translating analytics into site improvements and evangelizing research practices to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's, English, Bachelor's, English at East Stroudsburg University of PennsylvaniaMaster's, Library and Information Science - Informatics, Master's, Library and Information Science - Informatics at University of California, Los AngelesOnline Professional Development, Information Technology, Online Professional Development, Information Technology at Library Juice Academy
Github Skills (4)
sphinx10
documentation10
rest-api9
html8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:24 reviews, 62 commits, 16 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Julian's contributions primarily focus on updating and improving documentation within the Dataverse repository. They updated the documentation for different aspects of the software, including user guides, API documentation, and metadata customization. The changes involved rewording sections, fixing typos, and adding details related to metadata standards, API examples, and supported HTML tags.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
jggautier/dataverse-scripts
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
A small software application that provides a UI for automating things in repositories that use the Dataverse software
Contributions:11 releases, 745 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 4 months
repositoriesdata-analysispythondataverseapplication-software
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