Justin Gonder
Senior Product Manager at California Digital Library
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Gonder is a Senior Product Manager with eight years in scholarly communications and a longer history bridging research, usability, and service operations for open access publishing platforms. At the California Digital Library he leads product strategy for eScholarship and UC-wide publication systems, balancing daily operational reliability with strategic growth and policy advocacy. Trained as a psychologist and experienced in psychometric survey design and statistical analysis, he brings rigorous research methods to product decisions and usability testing. He is a hands-on collaborator who has coordinated large migrations, built template-driven publishing sites, and distilled complex processes into practical documentation and training. Based in Chicago, he is known for asking “Why?” and “How?” to surface better practices and designs, pairing a tinkerer’s curiosity with disciplined, evidence-based product work.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Psychology, option in Psychological Science, M.A., Psychology, option in Psychological Science at California State University, Chico
Github Skills (8)
open-access10
journal10
creative-commons9
api3
esi3
plugin3
commons2
metadata1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
justingonder/jschol
Jul 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:56 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 11 months
justingonder/doaj_transporter
May 2025 - Mar 2026
A Janeway plugin for exporting journal and article metadata into DOAJ
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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