Robert Olendorf
Director Of The Natural Sciences Library
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Olendorf is a science data librarian and director with 14 years of experience building archival systems and researcher-focused data curation workflows across academia and national labs. Currently leading the Natural Sciences Library at NC State, he combines deep domain training (PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) with technical chops in metadata, SQL, PHP, Java, C++ and XML to design OAIS-compliant repositories and reproducible data pipelines. His career spans hands-on roles at Los Alamos and University of New Mexico where he architected repository solutions, developed metadata schemas for complex objects, and operationalized dataONE integrations. Known for bridging wet-lab research sensibilities with software engineering rigor, he helps researchers make datasets discoverable, reusable, and preservation-ready.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, MS, Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (54)
rails7
meta-analysis7
namespaces6
administration6
factory-bot6
government-data6
ruby-on-rails6
ansible-role6
api6
activeadmin6
traits6
rspec6
devise6
solr6
ruby6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
olendorf/ezid-php
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
olendorf/sl_app_legacy
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:140 PRs, 216 pushes, 110 branches in 8 months
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