Stuart Yeates
Technical Specialist at Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Yeates is a Technical Specialist with over 8 years of experience building and maintaining content-rich library and research websites, currently supporting Victoria University of Wellington’s digital collections. He combines deep technical delivery with open source community-building and specialist paralegal advice, making him adept at navigating licensing, documentation, and governance for scholarly resources. His background includes lead architect and developer roles for the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre and research-intensive positions at Oxford, reflecting a strong blend of academic and production engineering. Stuart holds a PhD in Computer Science and has a track record of turning complex requirements into practical, well-documented systems for cultural heritage and research archives. Colleagues value his ability to translate legal and community needs into technical solutions, an uncommon but crucial skill in open digital scholarship.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of CanterburyPh.D.., Computer Science, Ph.D.., Computer Science at University of Waikato
English, māori
Github Skills (27)
java10
open-access10
rest-api10
creative-commons9
container-image8
dspace8
open-source7
asset-management7
podman6
docker6
web-application6
angular5
security5
ojs5
user-interface5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stuartyeates/METS_metadata_for_complete_beginners
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 commits in 9 months
VUW-Library/figshare-oaipmh-proxy
Nov 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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