Nick Budak
Digital Library Software Developer at Stanford University
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Budak is a Digital Library Software Developer with a decade of experience building accessible, dynamic interfaces for digital humanities and library systems, currently based at Stanford. He blends front-end and back-end engineering—having shipped flagship projects at Princeton like the Shakespeare and Company Project and Princeton Prosody Archive—with research-driven tooling for computational phonology in the DIRECT Old Chinese project. Certified in web accessibility, he has led community workshops (e.g., Collections as Data Jam at ACH2019), won the Primo Open Discovery Challenge, and published open-source catalog customizations for the Orbis Cascade Alliance. Before academia he rebuilt a college library web presence and even built playful tech like a poetry robot, underscoring a knack for pragmatic, user-centered solutions and a taste for retro hardware (he owns many Game Boys).
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Whitman CollegeBeijing Foreign Studies UniversityPrinceton University
Chinese, Japanese, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
hugo10
digital-humanities10
python10
custom-actions10
annotations10
chinese-traditional10
ruby10
wordnet10
phonetics10
micropython10
marc10
javascript10
cjk10
corpus10
django10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
OpenGeoMetadata/ogm-viewer
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
A web-based viewer for OGM records
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 50 PRs in 1 year
alliance-pcsg/primo-explore-resource-icons
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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