Ryan Deschamps
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorRyan Deschamps is an interdisciplinary data and digital policy professional with 10 years of experience bridging academia, public institutions, and applied technology. Currently coordinating Conestoga College’s Bachelor of Data Analytics and teaching mobile app development, he blends hands-on course design with student-centered advising and modern hybrid pedagogy. His work spans data trust architecture, UX instruction, and large-scale web archive analysis, reflecting a rare mix of technical data skills and public policy expertise informed by a PhD in Public Policy Analysis. Ryan has led projects that turn ocean and web-archival data into actionable products and taught information policy and UX at the graduate level, signaling an ability to translate complex technical and governance problems for diverse stakeholders. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he draws on a long career in libraries and public service to prioritize access, ethics, and historical context in digital projects. Colleagues describe him as a scholar-practitioner who rigorously connects historical perspective, policy insight, and practical data solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (78)
digital-humanities10
python10
network-analysis10
pyspark10
data-management10
api10
gephi10
webarchive10
linked-open-data10
sigmajs10
website-hosting10
text-extraction10
igraph10
big-data-analytics10
quantum-computing9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
archivesunleashed/graphpass
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
GraphPass is a utility to filter networks and provide a default visualization output for Gephi or SigmaJS.
Contributions:3 releases, 90 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 5 months
gephisigmajsvisualizationgexfgexf-graph-files
greebie/DNV-format
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
A proposed data format and parser for hand-coded networks.
Contributions:25 PRs, 50 pushes, 15 branches in 26 days
handdata-formatparser
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