Michael Giarlo
Digital Library Technology Strategist
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Giarlo is a digital library technology strategist and senior software engineer with 18 years of experience designing and coordinating large-scale repository systems for research institutions. Based at Stanford and previously with Penn State, the Library of Congress, and Princeton, he blends hands-on engineering (open source stacks and SD R development) with architectural leadership to align roadmaps, governance, and cross-departmental technical strategy. He specializes in scholarly communication infrastructure, persistent identifiers, and research intelligence, and routinely convenes architecture groups to promote reuse and best practices. A trained computational linguist and librarian by education, he brings uncommon domain fluency that connects metadata, preservation workflows, and developer ecosystems. Outside work he surfaces in GitHub as a librarian-engineer and brings a distinctly human touch—parent, musician, and cocktail enthusiast—to long-running institutional projects.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Professional M.A., Computational Linguistics, Professional M.A., Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonMLIS, Library and Information Science, MLIS, Library and Information Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New BrunswickB.A., Linguistics, Philosophy, B.A., Linguistics, Philosophy at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
powerline10
backbone10
hydra10
browser10
digital-assets10
api10
organize10
vagrant10
ruby-wrapper10
identifier10
rails-api10
rails-app10
sinopia10
controlled10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
code4lib/code-of-conduct
Nov 2012 - Mar 2021
Code4lib code of conduct
Contributions:15 reviews, 26 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 4 months
code-of-conduct
mjgiarlo/namaste
Oct 2009 - Jul 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 4 years 10 months
pythonnamasteapproximationperlconvention
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