Laura Wrubel
Digital Library Software Developer at Stanford University
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Wrubel is a Digital Library Software Developer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining open-source repository systems and web-archiving workflows for research libraries. She blends librarian domain expertise with hands-on Python/Django development, teaching, and project leadership to make cultural heritage collections discoverable and usable as data. At Stanford and previously George Washington University she has led agile teams, served as scrum master and tech lead, and driven enterprise-scale implementations that prioritize transparency and stakeholder engagement. Laura designs tools and workflows for capturing the web and social media for long-term research use, and she’s taught Python camps and workshops on scraping, git, APIs, and data ethics to broaden technical capacity across campus. As a Visiting Scholar at Library of Congress Labs she used machine learning to visualize collections by color and produced API documentation and public workshops, reflecting her interest in practical ML applications for libraries. She values inclusivity in teaching and collaboration, and enjoys making code empowering for researchers and library staff.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Art History, B.A., Art History at The College of William and MaryThe University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (130)
alpha10
twitter10
feed10
gwt10
user-manager10
social-media10
rails-api10
robot10
marc9
solr9
harvest9
api9
application9
network-analysis9
digital-humanities9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
LibraryOfCongress/data-exploration
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Tutorials for working with Library of Congress collections data
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
gwu-libraries/sfm-twitter-harvester
May 2016 - Dec 2021
A harvester for twitter content as part of Social Feed Manager.
Contributions:4 releases, 29 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 7 months
twittersocial-feed-manager
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