Shane Lin
Senior Developer
ssl2ab@virginia.edu
Shannon 308 A

Job summary

Shane writes codes for Scholars' Lab, makes coffee, and teaches the Code Lab introductory programming course for the Praxis Fellowship. He has an MA in history from UVA. His scholarly interests are the history of computing and digital privacy. He was previously a Praxis Fellow (2012), Makerspace Technologist (2014-2017), Digital Humanities Fellow (2016), and the sole recipient of the Scholars’ Lab’s prestigious Shane Lin Memorial Fellowship (2013). Before all that, he worked for Big Tech and felt bad about it.

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Python
Parsing and cleaning data
Social media data, web scraping
OCR/HTR
Digital archives
3D printing, letterpress
Food in Charlottesville