Six Silberman
Postdoctoral Researcher at Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSix Silberman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, bringing 13 years of technical and policy-focused experience at the intersection of software engineering and labor rights. With a PhD in Information and Computer Sciences and a long history as lead programmer and cofounder of Turkopticon, they combine rigorous research with hands-on systems building to study worker data rights. They have guided policy and advocacy work for IG Metall and contributed empirical and legislative inputs to EU, national, and UN bodies, including co-authoring an ILO report on digital labour platforms. Six has shipped production software at startups and nonprofits, then translated that operational knowledge into academic research on platform governance. Based in London, they bridge technical, legal, and organizing communities to make platform accountability practically enforceable. An interesting throughline in their career is blending agent-based and empirical methods from environmental and computational research with real-world organizing to influence technology policy.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Applied Mathematics, B.S., Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkProgramming Immersion, Programming Immersion at Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information and Computer Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (8)
ruby-on-rails7
ruby7
rails7
cli1
nyc1
mta1
command-line-interface1
command-line1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fiveplusone/turkopticon-rails-app
Feb 2014 - Aug 2021
The Rails application for Turkopticon
Contributions:3 reviews, 255 commits, 5 PRs in 7 years 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-applicationruby
fiveplusone/turkopticon-php-api
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 5 days
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