William Dewey
Programmer Analyst at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Dewey is a Programmer Analyst and digital humanist with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and Python for scholarly and museum contexts. At the University of Nebraska–Lincoln he maintains and extends in-house Rails apps that power Elasticsearch-based ingest and discovery, while consulting with scholars to turn complex humanities data into accessible digital projects. His background as a PhD scholar of religion and teaching across international classrooms gives him a rare fluency in metadata, multilingual textual sources, and clear interpretive communication for global audiences. He has applied linked data and RDF in contract work for Tibetan textual projects and brings practical experience cleaning and transforming CSV, XML, and Airtable datasets. Colleagues rely on him to bridge rigorous research practices with pragmatic engineering to make cultural heritage and research data discoverable and usable.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Sanskrit (summer program), Sanskrit (summer program) at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Theological Studies (M.T.S.), Buddhist Studies, Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.), Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Religion/Religious Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Religion/Religious Studies at University of California, Santa BarbaraAfrican Studies (summer program in Mali), African Studies (summer program in Mali) at Drew UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Religion/Religious Studies; Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Religion/Religious Studies; Political Science at Emory UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Stackoverflow
31reputation
3kreached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (51)
css10
nodejs10
javascript9
ruby9
solr9
saxon9
ruby-on-rails9
html9
xml9
elasticsearch9
web-development8
digital-humanities8
ruby-wrapper7
api7
creative-commons6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CDRH/data_petitioning-for-freedom
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
Habeas Corpus
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
tei-xml
CDRH/data_tibetan-monasteries
Sep 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:5 PRs, 37 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 7 months
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