Rainbow Di Benedetto
Conference Chair at Higher Education Data World (HEDW)
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRainbow Di Benedetto is a data-driven software leader based in Austin, Texas, currently directing the Functional Team for the Data to Insights (D2I) initiative at The University of Texas at Austin. With over 6 years of formal experience in software roles—and a long institutional tenure reflected in progressive leadership positions—she blends hands-on development, analytics, and program leadership to turn complex data into actionable insight. She has a track record of rebuilding and refining backend systems and analytical tools, and she led technical teams and governance bodies such as the UT Staff Council. An active open-source contributor known as Rainbow Dreamer, she develops music- and math-focused Python libraries (notably contributions to musicpy involving chord, MIDI, and melody analysis), revealing an uncommon mix of technical craft and creative domain knowledge. Her background in sociology informs a people-centered approach to technical decision-making and stakeholder engagement. Colleagues rely on her to bridge institutional strategy, reproducible analytics, and pragmatic software engineering.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Sociology, B.A., Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish
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Github Skills (4)
midi10
midi-instrument10
python10
music-theory10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Rainbow-Dreamer/musicpy
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Musicpy is a music programming language in Python designed to write music in very handy syntax through music theory and algorithms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1120 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rainbow primarily focused on updating and modifying the musicpy.py file in the rainbow-dreamer/musicpy repository. These changes primarily involved refactoring functions related to chord creation, MIDI conversion, and scale detection. The user also implemented code changes related to melody analysis, chord analysis and incorporating pitch bend messages from midi files.
pythonmidimusic-programming-languagemusic-programmingtheory
Rainbow-Dreamer/sf2_loader
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
This is an easy-to-use soundfonts loader, player and audio renderer in python
Contributions:194 commits, 1 PR, 178 pushes in 1 year 5 months
musicpythonsf2soundfontsoundfonts
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