Jim Vanderveen
Information Technology Lead
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Vanderveen is an experienced IT lead and hands-on generalist with 30+ years of practical experience across systems, networking, databases and automation, currently leading IT at UC Davis. He blends deep database and DevOps know-how—Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Perl/PHP scripting and shell automation—with system and network administration across Unix/Linux and Windows environments. Jim’s career spans higher education, manufacturing, dental, construction management and publishing, where he’s built integrations, reporting pipelines and library automation systems that bridge legacy and modern stacks. Known as a “renaissance” technologist rather than a narrow specialist, he excels at reverse-engineering complex systems, training teams, and turning institutional knowledge into reliable, maintainable infrastructure. Based in Davis, California, he pairs broad technical fluency with a pragmatic focus on durable, well-documented solutions.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
English, Esperanto
Stackoverflow
11reputation
4kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (62)
console9
linux9
windows9
homekit9
command-line9
js-api9
android9
bsd9
documentation9
cli9
macos9
shell9
qtwebkit8
siri8
google-map8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cdlib/devops-kit
Jan 2017 - May 2019
Scripts and other tools to support California Digital Library's teams
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
digital-librarypython
jimvanderveen/phant
Mar 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
logging-enginesparkfundata-logginglogging
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