Ted Strauss
IT Consultant & Media Producer at Self-Employed
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolTed Strauss is an IT consultant and media producer with 14 years of experience building data-driven tools and workflows across higher education, healthcare research, and startups. He specializes in database administration, data management for large-scale neuroimaging studies, and full‑stack development, having implemented acquisition pipelines and self‑serve portals at leading brain imaging centers. Ted brings a blend of client-facing coordination and hands-on engineering—migrating legacy LMS systems to Moodle, launching open science programs, and producing bespoke web and media products for local clients. He contributes to open-source clinical research infrastructure (notably test and QA work on the LORIS longitudinal study platform), highlighting a focus on reliability and reproducible data. Comfortable teaching and documenting complex processes, he has designed workshops and knowledge bases to make technical practices accessible to researchers and stakeholders. Based in Montreal with a background in cognitive science, Ted combines technical depth with creative production and community-oriented project experience.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Cognitive Science, B.A., Cognitive Science at McGill University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
testing10
php10
test-automation10
amazon-web-services9
amazon-ec29
audio9
ssh9
iframe6
gaussian6
database6
sql6
neuroimaging6
statistics6
databases6
trello6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aces/Loris
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
LORIS is a web-accessible database solution for longitudinal multi-site studies.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:163 commits, 109 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ted's commits primarily involve fixing and adding tests for various modules within the LORIS project, a web-accessible database solution for longitudinal multi-site studies. They addressed test failures and added new automated tests for functionalities related to instrument building, instrument management, MRI violations, and other modules. The contributions focused on ensuring the reliability and functionality of the LORIS system.
databaselorisneuroinformaticsneuroimagingdata-sharing
ted-strauss-K1/jTRACE
Nov 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 2 years 10 months
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