Steven Derose
Head Of Linguistics at Docugami Inc
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Derose is a Head of Linguistics and computational linguist with a Ph.D. who blends deep humanities training and decades of engineering experience to design advanced electronic document systems, NLP, and text analytics. He has driven standards and technologies foundational to today’s data ecosystem—contributing to XML, XPath, XLink, HTML4, JATS and TEI—and co-founded the company behind the influential DynaText platform. At Docugami he applies that cross-disciplinary expertise to AI document engineering, turning messy enterprise documents into structured, actionable data for operations and compliance. Known for moving fluidly between research, standards work, patents and product engineering, he pairs hands-on coding (Python, XSLT) with architecture, teaching, and public-facing leadership. An underappreciated strength is his long track record of translating archival and scholarly needs into scalable commercial systems, evidenced by grants, standards authorship, and over 75 publications.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computational Linguistics, Ph.D., Computational Linguistics at Brown UniversityPrairie School (Racine)
Spanish, Greek
Github Skills (47)
mouse8
microsoft-sql8
barrier7
printing7
keyboard7
tsql6
virtual6
ssms6
science6
data-tools6
bootstrapping6
kvm6
sarif6
hyphenation5
microsoft-sql-server5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sderose/Text
Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 82 pushes in 1 year 9 months
sderose/Shell
Dec 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:76 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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