Hello 👋

I’m a research software engineer with a particular love for the digital humanities, and a classically trained Persian and Arabic philologist (PhD UChicago, 2020) with an active research agenda.

My most recent full-time role (2024–25) was in the Colleges of Engineering and Computing & Informatics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where I worked as the primary software engineer on an NSF-funded project that involved (inter alia) setting up and administering a cluster of GPU servers to be used by researchers for training machine learning models. Many of my responsibilities fell under the umbrella of what might be called Research DevOps/MLOps.

I’m still based in the Philadelphia area, with no plans to move, and I’m looking for my next professional challenge, be it on a full-time, part-time, or contract basis. I would be especially interested in consulting/contract work for academic research projects—though I understand (as we all must) the difficulties of the current research funding environment. Try curling my résumé API:

curl -s https://resume.theobeers.com/ | jq '{name, tagline, links}'

Prior to my engagement at Drexel, I spent several years as a postdoc in the Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. I still collaborate with that group, maintaining an affiliation as a non-resident fellow, and I try to visit as often as I can. Deutschland, besonders Berlin, wird für mich auf ewig ein Herzensort bleiben.

Anyway, regardless of where I am, I’m an avid programmer in several languages (Rust, Python, TypeScript, Go…), and on GitHub I like to build web apps, CLI tools, and software libraries to facilitate my research and that of my colleagues around the world.

My homepage is at theobeers.com. I can be reached by email using any valid prefix at that domain.