Philip Durbin
Software Developer at Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Durbin is a seasoned software developer with 17 years of professional experience and over a decade of Java expertise, specializing in open source research data infrastructure as a long-time back-end contributor to IQSS's Dataverse project. Based in Cambridge, he blends deep Linux and networking knowledge with practical systems engineering—having managed thousands of servers, led large VM migrations, and automated infrastructure with Puppet and custom tooling. At Harvard he has implemented APIs, search, authentication, CI/CD and integrations with platforms like Open Journal Systems and Archivematica, and he helped migrate Dataverse from SVN to GitHub while mentoring external contributors. A community-minded engineer, he runs workshops, authors tooling around installers and deployments (including transitioning a Perl installer to Python), and sustains developer-friendly platforms for Python/Django apps. Not obvious from his title: he pairs production-grade systems work with hands-on advocacy for reproducible research and open science.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, 4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, 4.0 at University of Dayton
Stackoverflow
4,062reputation
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36answers
9questions
linux
top-5%
networking
top-1%
Github Skills (16)
python10
networking10
documentation9
linux9
postgresql8
api-design7
apim7
api7
bandwidth6
system-administration6
bash6
vagrant6
perl6
regex6
ruby6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Dec 2013 - Jan 2023
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 1855 reviews, 3756 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Philip's commits primarily focused on refactoring and updating existing code related to documentation and the transition from the Perl installer to a Python installer. Their changes involved modifying code across multiple files and adjusting configuration pages to reflect these changes. The user also contributed to the project by modifying and adjusting various installation configuration steps, mainly related to database and related setup.
research-datadata-repositoryopendataresearch-data-repositorycreative-commons
pdurbin/greptilian-vagrant
Oct 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 4 branches, 1 comment in 6 years 10 months
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