Micah Walter
Web Services Librarian at Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Walter is a Web Services Librarian with 12 years of experience at the intersection of music, language, and computing, currently based in Northampton, MA. They combine academic rigor—from a Harvard M.A. in Music and an MLIS from Simmons—with hands-on software work, including Django back-end development and interactive search tools for large music datasets. As a contributor to the widely used music21 toolkit, Micah implemented and validated feature extractors for computational musicology, blending domain expertise with QA and documentation. Their practice emphasizes community impact and accessible scholarship, informed by teaching and conference presentations as well as library-facing web services. Micah brings a detail-oriented, collaborative approach that translates scholarly questions into robust, user-facing technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music; Linguistics, 4.0, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music; Linguistics, 4.0 at Haverford CollegeM.A., Music, 3.959, M.A., Music, 3.959 at Harvard UniversityMasters of Library and Information Science, Library and Information Science, 4.0, Masters of Library and Information Science, Library and Information Science, 4.0 at Simmons University
Greek, Latin, French, Esperanto, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
computer-music10
python10
feature-extraction10
concatenation6
json6
django-models6
rbac6
statement6
django6
lilypond6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cuthbertLab/music21
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
music21 is a Toolkit for Computational Musicology
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Micah focused on enhancing the `music21` toolkit, primarily by implementing and refining feature extractors related to music analysis. Their work included creating new extractors, such as those for note durations, standard deviation of note durations, and Duration feature, and correcting existing ones, ensuring they matched the intended functionality of the jSymbolic implementation. Furthermore, the user performed extensive testing and documentation updates to validate the accuracy and usability of the implemented features.
dtwpythonmusicologymusic21music
SmithCollegeLibraries/hitchcock
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Pilot system for managing and providing access to locally hosted electronic reserves materials
Contributions:9 PRs, 115 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 4 months
electronichostedlocallypilot
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