Steven Kaplan
Software Engineer at Sefaria.org
Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Kaplan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in modularization and Python-driven back-end work, currently contributing to Sefaria.org. He has deep expertise in parsing and structuring complex textual corpora—having implemented Zohar scripts, robust text parsing, fuzzy quotation matching, and automated table-of-contents generation for large Jewish texts. Based in Jerusalem, he combines a humanities background (BA in Philosophy) with a post-baccalaureate MA in Computer Science, which gives him a rare strength in modeling nuanced, semantically rich data. An active contributor to the well-known Sefaria open-source project, he bridges research-grade text scholarship and production engineering to make archival texts accessible and machine-readable.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at Muhlenberg CollegeParkland High SchoolPost-Baccalaureate Master of Arts (M.A.), Computer Science, 3.63, Post-Baccalaureate Master of Arts (M.A.), Computer Science, 3.63 at Brandeis University
Github Skills (11)
python10
apidoc9
api9
json9
text-parsing8
data-structure7
restful-api7
api-design7
data-structures7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Sefaria/Sefaria-Project
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
New Interfaces for Jewish Texts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 270 reviews, 799 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the implementation of Zohar scripts and text parsing within the sefaria/sefaria-project repository. Their work involved creating and modifying Python scripts, specifically focusing on the structure of the Zohar text, using Python and tools like `urllib2` for API interactions with a local server. They also demonstrated proficiency in using the JSON format for data representation and utilized libraries for parsing and working with text data.
torahtalmudjewishinterfacestexts
Sefaria/Contextus
Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
New Interfaces for Constitutional Texts
Contributions:36 releases, 35 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 year 4 months
interfacestexts
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