Nicholas Woodward
Software Engineer at Texas Digital Library
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Woodward is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems for digital libraries and research organizations, currently based in Austin and working at Texas Digital Library. He has deep domain expertise in digital asset management and repository workflows, having implemented ingest, metadata, and discovery features for Fedora/Islandora ecosystems and contributed backend fixes and tests to the widely used DSpace open-source repository. Nicholas combines production engineering with archival-focused product thinking—he built web archiving tooling at the Library of Congress and designed large-scale digitization pipelines at UT Austin and TACC. His background in information architecture (M.S.I.S.) and Latin American studies gives him a rare blend of technical rigor and user-centered collection stewardship. He’s comfortable optimizing I/O and metadata flows in high-performance environments and has a track record of turning archival workflows into reliable, test-covered software. Colleagues rely on him to translate curator requirements into robust, scalable backend implementations that keep institutional collections accessible.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.S.I.S., Information Architecture, M.S.I.S., Information Architecture at The University of Texas at AustinB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
javas10
rest-api10
java10
package-repository9
git-repository9
open-source9
dspace8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 22 commits, 40 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas contributed to the DSpace repository by implementing and refining core backend functionalities. Their work includes adding features for item retrieval, optimizing metadata handling, and ensuring correct license application. They addressed bugs in OAI harvesting and statistics logging. Furthermore, the user contributed to the discovery framework by addressing a sorting bug and adding tests.
management-systemopen-accessdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowers
TexasDigitalLibrary/hyku
Mar 2018 - Jun 2020
Hyku: A turnkey Samvera application built on the latest and greatest community components. Brought to you by the Hydra-in-a-Box project partners and IMLS.
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
boxsamveragreatestturnkeyduplicates
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