Juniper System
Freelance Journalist at Industrial Workers of the World
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolJuniper System is a multidisciplinary technologist and freelance journalist based in Long Beach, CA, with over two decades of hands-on experience building high-availability web platforms and complex networked infrastructure. They co-created and architected large user-driven sites (including FurAffinity and e621) and specialize in scaling distributed storage, caching, and replication to serve high-concurrency, high-bandwidth applications. Equally fluent in software (PHP, Ruby on Rails, C, JavaScript, Bash) and the social sciences, Juniper blends engineering with sociology, anthropology and legal/ethical risk management to navigate content, jurisdictional and moderation challenges at scale. Active in community and labor organizing work — currently serving as an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer and senior journalist for civic networks — they translate technical solutions into resilient, policy-aware products. Their background in quantitative ecology and data analysis informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to designing systems that respect communities as well as performance metrics.
9 years of coding experience
The Open University
Github Skills (100)
ecology10
python10
r-stats10
forecast10
summarize10
environmental10
r10
shiny10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
biophysics10
r-package10
allocation10
portal10
reproducible-research10
package-development10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
weecology/portalcasting
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Model development, deployment, and evaluation for forecasting Portal ecosystem dynamics
Contributions:67 releases, 1202 commits, 364 PRs in 4 years 10 months
predictionsportalecologyforecastingr
chemicalweaponsresearch/website
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
Website for the Chemical Weapons Research Center
Contributions:9 PRs, 77 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 1 month
weaponschemicalconsortium
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