Scott Weikart

Scott Weikart, Ph.D., is Senior Systems Administrator based at Bengineering, the engineering department at Benetech. He does much of the data processing of datasets used by HRDAG projects, with an emphasis on automated techniques to clean and canonicalize data, de-duplicate datasets, and link records between datasets. He has been designing, building and running Unix and GNU/Linux servers and storage systems for 20 years.

In 1984, Scott co-founded the non-profit Community Data Processing, where he co-designed a sophisticated membership database system.

In 1986, Scott was technical founder of the non-profit PeaceNet online network, which grew into the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) family of networks (PeaceNet, EcoNet, WomensNet, LaborNet). He served many roles at IGC until 2002, including Board Member and Executive Director.

In 2001, Scott joined Benetech as Senior Systems Administrator. He designed and implemented all non-Java code needed to run a Martus Server (including designing a novel high-security mode for running a Linux kernel, and developing an automated installation system usable by people with no Unix or GNU/Linux experience). He runs all the GNU/Linux servers for Bookshare.org and Martus.

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