Bess Sadler
Senior Library Software Engineer at Princeton University
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBess Sadler is a Senior Library Software Engineer with 17 years building open source digital repositories, discovery systems, and research data infrastructure for leading academic institutions. Currently at Princeton, she combines hands-on development, strategic planning, and cross-institutional collaboration to preserve and democratize access to scholarly outputs. A long-time contributor and community organizer in the library tech space (co-founding Project Blacklight and active in code4lib and Islandora), she champions test-driven development, containerized infrastructure, and reproducible research workflows. Known for mentoring teams and translating library needs into sustainable technical architectures, she has guided projects at Stanford, UVA, and numerous university clients through both code and operational practices. Based in Carrboro, NC, she brings a principled commitment to free software and collaborative solutions for long-term scholarly stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MLIS, Library and Informaton Studies, MLIS, Library and Informaton Studies at University of AlbertaBA, Information Systems, Women's Studies, BA, Information Systems, Women's Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMor Institute IT Leadership Program
Spanish
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Github Skills (156)
user-roles10
ruby10
ruby-client10
ansible-role10
reserve10
iiif10
solr10
tushare10
rails10
blacklight10
controlled10
fedora10
dce10
ansible-collections10
marc9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
bess/northwest-digital-archives
Apr 2009 - Aug 2009
Contributions:439 commits in 3 months
samvera/bixby
May 2017 - Mar 2022
RuboCop Defaults for Samvera Community projects
Contributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 25 commits in 4 years 10 months
rubocopcore-componentssamvera-community
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