Ravi Selker
Full-stack Developer at City of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRavi Selker is a full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building web applications that balance rapid delivery with long-term maintainability and security. He co-founded jamovi, designing UIs and backend analyses in R and JavaScript, and has contributed to notable open-source statistical projects like JASP by enhancing paired t-tests and ANOVA functionality. His work spans startups to government—rebuilding internal systems at Politie Nederland, modernizing Python codebases, adding automated tests, and moving teams toward mature architectures and Agile practices. Currently at the City of Amsterdam, he blends hands-on engineering with product thinking, having served as a Product Owner shaping roadmaps and prioritizing stakeholder needs. Trained in psychology (MSc) and experienced in Bayesian modeling, he brings a rare mix of statistical insight and practical software craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Psychology, Master of Science (MSc) Psychology at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (4)
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statistics10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jasp-stats/jasp-desktop
Sep 2013 - Jul 2016
JASP aims to be a complete statistical package for both Bayesian and Frequentist statistical methods, that is easy to use and familiar to users of SPSS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:169 commits, 90 PRs, 96 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ravi contributed to the JASP-desktop repository by updating the paired samples t-test functionality, adding effect size calculations and confidence interval options. They modified the R code (ttestpairedsamples.R) within the JASP-Engine, indicating a focus on enhancing the statistical analysis capabilities. In addition, the user was involved in updates to the ANOVA functionality, and the addition of descriptives plots.
statisticsfreesoftwarestatisticalaimsstatistical-methods
raviselker/jmvcore
Mar 2017 - Jul 2023
The jamovi core for R
Contributions:88 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
r-packagejamovirstats
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