Neil Ashton
Senior Software Engineer at Democracy Works
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Ashton is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience who combines rigorous humanities training with practical engineering, currently building civic technology at Democracy Works from Hillsborough, NC. Trained in classics and linguistics (MA, ABD at Cornell), he brings a researcher’s curiosity to software design, favoring clear, well-documented systems and careful reasoning about language and data. His background suggests strengths in translating ambiguous requirements into robust implementations and communicating technical ideas to nontechnical stakeholders. Comfortable at the intersection of programming, research, and writing, he leverages deep analytic habits from the humanities to tackle complex engineering problems in the civic tech space.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at University of AlbertaMaster of Arts (ABD), Linguistics, Master of Arts (ABD), Linguistics at Cornell University
Spanish, German, French, old irish, Sanskrit, standard tibetan, tocharian, classical nahuatl, hittite, middle egyptian, coptic, Latin, Greek, English
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Github Skills (67)
san10
solar-energy10
django-project10
django9
latin9
decision-making9
aggregates9
energy9
python9
django-cms9
traffic9
voting9
dictionary9
solar9
open-data9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mesolex/mesolex
May 2018 - Oct 2021
A smart dictionary for Indigenous Mesoamerican languages built with Django
Contributions:5 reviews, 553 commits, 35 PRs in 3 years 5 months
dictionaryindigenouspythondjangomesoamerican
caktus/revolv
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:79 PRs, 102 pushes, 77 branches in 16 days
pythonnonprofit-organizationsolar-energydjangocrowdfunding
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