Kalle Westerling
Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolKalle Westerling is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging research, education, and developer enablement across academia and industry. Currently at Chainguard, he focuses on developer training and software supply chain tooling, having moved from product management into a hands-on DevRel role. His background includes research software engineering at the British Library’s Living with Machines project and research application management at The Alan Turing Institute, where he translated complex research outputs into interoperable, reusable tools. Kalle combines a PhD in Theatre and Performance with deep technical skills (Python, JavaScript, Django) and a knack for crafting learning experiences and curricula at scale. He has a proven track record securing funding, launching virtual training platforms, and growing developer and research communities. Unusually, he pairs humanities-driven thinking about legacy and accessibility with pragmatic engineering to make research software sustainably useful.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theatre and Performance, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkMaster of Arts (M.A.) Performance Studies, Master of Arts (M.A.) Performance Studies at Stockholm University
Spanish, Swedish, English, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (200)
computer-vision10
topic-modeling10
data-science10
spatial-data10
css10
nltk10
machine-learning10
scientific-publications10
machine-vision10
science10
twitter-api10
digital-humanities10
corpus10
version-control10
nlp9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kallewesterling/drag-data-1930s
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:77 PRs, 152 pushes, 61 branches in 1 year 7 months
datasetnewspapersdigital-humanitiesperforming-artshistorical-newspapers
kallewesterling/early-female-impersonators
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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