Karen Coombs
Senior Product Analyst - WorldShare Platform
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaren Coombs is a senior product analyst and librarian-technologist with over two decades of experience blending library science, web development, and API product management. At OCLC she leads cross-functional efforts to design, document, and promote enterprise APIs, translating library workflows into developer-friendly services and creating marketing and technical materials that drive adoption. Her background running web services and digital projects in academic libraries gives her a rare combination of user-centered research, metadata expertise, and hands-on implementation skills (from XSLT and CMS launches to federated search). Known for community engagement, she builds developer networks, delivers training, and provides practical code samples and support to accelerate integrations. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, she leverages an MLS and MS in Information Management to bridge scholarly needs and scalable platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Information Management, MS, Information Management at Syracuse UniversityBA, Anthropology and Music, BA, Anthropology and Music at Beloit College
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (89)
parser10
printing10
argparse10
discovery10
portal10
php-library9
singer9
api8
marc8
python8
authentication8
data-api8
aws-lambda8
azure-functions7
cjs7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
librarywebchic/WMS-Labeling
May 2017 - Oct 2024
Custom application to add label printing capabilities to OCLC's WMS system.
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
printingoclclabel-printingwmswms-system
OCLC-Developer-Network/worldcat-discovery-ruby
Sep 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 38 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 8 months
apiruby-gemrubydiscoveryapi-discovery
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