Nigel Kerr
Chief Architect at ITHAKA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNigel Kerr is a Chief Architect with 15 years of experience architecting and operating content- and data-centric systems at ITHAKA and JSTOR, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He blends systems theory, technical product management, and incident management to design resilient reference architectures for electronic publishing, text/data processing, PDF manipulation, and content management. Nigel has a long track record of leading small engineering teams to build reliable data storage and manipulation pipelines that support large public research platforms. He is skilled at facilitating post-incident reviews and turning operational learnings into lasting architecture improvements. With an MLIS from the University of Michigan and a background in library studies and Russian, he brings a librarian’s rigor to schema and metadata design that often makes complex publishing workflows more auditable and reusable.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MLIS Library Studies, MLIS Library Studies at University of Michigan - School of InformationBA Russian, BA Russian at Willamette University
Github Skills (13)
sqlite8
swift8
post-quantum5
security5
pdf5
rust3
alloy3
cloudflare-workers3
letsencrypt2
golang2
cloudflare2
go2
mercurial1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nigelkerr/character-reminder
Nov 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 2 months
nigelkerr/parsepdf
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
Process PDF 2.0 Instances in Rust
Contributions:163 commits, 12 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 years 7 months
rustinstancespdf
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