Thomas Emerson
Principal Software Engineer at EBSCO Publishing
Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorThomas Emerson is a Principal Software Engineer with 27 years of experience building systems from compilers and operating systems to web browsers and, for the past 15 years, advanced work in computational linguistics, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery. He has led search and language-engineering efforts at organizations including EBSCO Publishing, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Basis Technology, and has experience both in industry and US Department of Defense projects with high-level security contexts. Thomas brings deep, practical expertise in multilingual text processing (Chinese, Arabic, Korean, EFIGS), Chinese word segmentation, dialectology, and character encodings—knowledge he jokes is more than any normal person should have. Based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he combines architectural thinking with hands-on implementation, preferring to solve thorny language and encoding problems rather than relocate for work.
27 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Yiddish
Stackoverflow
517reputation
51kreached
3answers
8questions
Github Skills (36)
dylan7
macos6
coding-style6
clojure6
neo4j6
emacs6
rocks6
mapreduce6
coding-conventions6
emacs-lisp6
java6
git6
hadoop6
highlighting5
cider5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TreeRex/emacs.d
Dec 2012 - Mar 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
TreeRex/cl-marc
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 2 months
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