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Ed Summers

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Senior Software Engineer at Stanford University
📍 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Ed Summers is a Senior Software Engineer at Stanford University with two decades of experience developing data management infrastructure. Holding a PhD from the University of Maryland, he specializes in bridging the worlds of libraries and archives with web technologies, focusing on digital preservation and API service design.

Driven by a commitment to social justice, Ed focuses his work on community building, knowledge sharing, and sustainability. He has a deep interest in how sociotechnical systems can be used to further social causes and is currently exploring opportunities in the field of environmental sustainability.

Unique fact: While at the Library of Congress, Ed helped create the application that archived nearly 500 billion tweets and led the development of the National Digital Newspaper Programs website.

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Experience
30 Years
Current Role
Senior Software Engineer
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Digital Preservation
His entire career, from the Library of Congress to Stanford, and his PhD research has been dedicated to preserving digital content and web archives for future access.
Web Archiving
He has published extensive research on the practices and sociotechnical systems of web archiving, including studies on the Wayback Machine and archiving social media.
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Career

Work history

1-2022
Senior Software Engineer
Stanford University
9-2014 - 1-2022
Research Faculty
University of Maryland
6-2021 - 9-2021
Research Fellow
The Brookings Institution
8-2018 - 8-2021
Visiting Researcher
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
4-2006 - 8-2014
Information Technology Specialist
The Library of Congress
In the press

Media appearances

Edward Hugh Summers - Stanford Profiles. Featured in Stanford University
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Ed Summers PhD Software Developer at Stanford University. Featured in ResearchGate
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Education
8-2015 - 11-2020
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
University of Maryland
Master's degree
Rutgers University
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Rutgers University
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