Amaya joined the Support team as a part-time systems administrator in October 2019. She has been working as a Linux SysAdmin, trainer and technical translator, since 1999, and has been involved in the Debian project since 2001. She was the first female Debian Developer in Europe, which inspired her to co-found the Debian Women project, […]

Anthea joined Artefactual in March 2022 where she works as a Business Analyst in the Project Delivery Team and is based out of Montreal, Quebec. She holds a Doctorate in Archives and Records Management from University College London (London, UK) and a Masters in Archival Studies, from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC). She […]

Anvit joined the Artefactual team as an AtoM Maintainer in 2023. He has a Masters in Computer Science degree from the University of Texas at Dallas, and has spent over 5 years in the Tech industry in various capacities. Prior to joining Artefactual, he taught the Web development course at BrainStation. His past teaching experience […]

Arpan joined the Support Team in May 2022 as a co-op student from Douglas College enrolled in the Computer Studies and Information Systems program. She is responsible for deploying and upgrading instances of Archivematica and AtoM and providing application support for Artefactual clients. She has experience in analysing data and managing technical issues at her […]

Betty joined Artefactual as a full-time bookkeeper in September 2021. She is a Charter Professional Accountant, CGA, and has a Business degree from Simon Fraser University. She comes from the public practice field and is excited to re-join private industry. Away from work, she is busy mountain biking, hiking or walking her dog.

Blossom is pursuing her post-baccalaureate diploma in Computer and Information Systems – Data Analytics at Douglas College. She has already completed a bachelor’s in Mathematics and she loves to solve tricky problems. Blossom loves exploring various places, especially hilly areas. Paragliding is one of her favourite sports. She is excited to continue her life’s journey […]

Dan leads the AtoM open-source project, focusing on development requirements analysis, software testing, documentation and community engagement. Dan Gillean completed his Dual MAS/MLIS degree at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies in 2013. While attending UBC, Dan also worked as an archival assistant at UBC Library’s Rare Books and […]

Daniel joined Artefactual in September 2022 as a Software Developer. Based in Montreal, Quebec, originally from Colombia. He speaks Spanish, English and French (in that order) and loves anything to do with the outdoors. He went to the EAN (escuela de administración de negocios) University in his home country and helped to run his family […]

Darren leads a team of Systems Administrators and Production Support Engineers who serve the needs of Artefactual’s technical support and hosting clients. Darren’s team also develops hosting infrastructure, contributes to software release processes and provides technical services to other Artefactual staff. Darren has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of British Columbia […]

David is an IT professional who came to Artefactual Systems with many years of Linux and UNIX server administration experience under his belt, building and maintaining environments for many different organizations – including some who were digitizing vital documents even prior to the World Wide Web! David has a Bachelor of Computer Science from the […]

David is a senior developer on the AtoM project. He started at Artefactual in May 2008 as one of the original AtoM software developers, and served as the Qubit/AtoM release manager for several years. Prior to coming to Artefactual, he had many years of experience developing and supporting web-based applications for a variety of international […]

Dhwani has been an Archivematica Maintainer at Artefactual since January 2023. She graduated from Dharmsinh Desai University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. While in college, she had the opportunity to work at one of the biggest power plants in Ahmedabad city. In addition, Dhwani holds a Master of Business Administration with a Finance Specialization […]

Douglas is an Archivematica developer from El Salvador who joined Artefactual in January 2019. He studied Informatic Systems Engineering at the University of El Salvador, where he developed scientific applications in PHP and provided pre-service training to prospective science teachers. He’s been a GNU/Linux and free software activist since the early 2000’s, when he got […]

Eleanor joined the Support Team in September 2021 as a co-op student and now works with Artefactual part-time. Eleanor is responsible for deploying and upgrading instances of Archivematica and AtoM and providing application support for Artefactual clients. She is also contributing to the development of the monitoring and logging system at Artefactual. Eleanor has previous […]

Fitia joined the Support Team in January 2022 as a co-op student from Douglas College, under the Computing Studies & Information Systems program.  She’s part of the team that investigates and and troubleshoots issues and she deploys upgrades for AtoM and Archivematica. Fitia spends her free time making digital paintings, sketches and doing all sorts […]

Hector is a highly skilled Systems Administrator with many years experience managing Linux-based systems. He has a Master of Engineering Degree in Computer Science from Osaka University in Japan, and a Linux Professional Institute Advanced Level Linux Professional (LPIC-2) certification. Hector joined Artefactual Systems as a Systems Administrator in September 2014 and quickly became highly […]

In 2019, Jay completed a Master’s in Art History from Concordia University, where they developed a passion for research and a devotion to heritage accessibility. In particular, they are interested in the preservation and accessibility of heritage materials from marginalized communities. Jay advocates for the importance of these materials in affirming and strengthening communities.  These interests […]

Jenn joined the Artefactual team in November 2019.  She has a wide range of work experience and has plied the archival trade in Canada, the USA and Switzerland. She currently calls Whitehorse, Yukon home. In the early 2000s Jenn was a researcher for the Government of Canada on its role in residential schools and on […]

Jessica joined the Support Team in September 2022 as a co-op student in Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Bachelor of Information Technology program. She previously studied Linguistics and Japanese at Tulane University and is looking forward to using her skills in tech and language to tackle difficult problems while providing support for Artefactual clients. In the future, […]

Jesús has worked as senior developer on both the Archivematica and AtoM projects. He currently leads the architectural design of Archivematica, ensuring that it continues to improve and scale up to the meet the needs of large organizations with diverse digital holdings. Jesús is one of the hardest working software developers in our community. He […]

Joel is responsible for the on-time, on-budget delivery of all client projects at Artefactual. Joel manages a team of project managers, archivists, developers and support engineers to deliver consulting, software development and implementation services. He also serves as a solution architect on major procurement projects. Prior to joining Artefactual as a consultant in 2016, Joel […]

‘Radda’ contributes code to the AtoM project. He is a graduate of the Técnico Informático Superior program at Punta del Verde Institute in Sevilla, Spain and is conversant in many different development platforms. Radda has worked as an intern and contractor for Zausan Innovación Tecnológica developing Android applications as well as levering Google technologies to build online […]

Justin is responsible for directing Artefactual’s business operations and strategy, keeping the company on a secure financial footing while ensuring that it remains true to its mission and open-source values. Justin was Director of Archivematica Technical Services from 2013 to January 2019. During that time he was responsible for analyzing, designing and developing the Archivematica […]

Katie joined the Business Development team in May 2022 as a co-op student who is completing her dual masters in Archival Studies and Library Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. Having experience providing peer-to-peer learning and education, as well as working on projects pertaining to research access portals, she is excited to work […]

Keith is a Developer from Toronto who joined Artefactual in September 2022. Mostly self taught, they took a variety of courses in web development and data science online. After finishing, they worked for a variety of startups as software developer intern. They also participated in several Hackathons including the UN world innovation day 2022. They […]

Kelly is responsible for ensuring that Artefactual meets the needs of clients using Archivematica and AtoM for digital preservation, archival description and online access. Kelly holds a Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia and has many years experience as a consultant and educator in archives and records management, specializing in […]

Maaike joined the Business Development Unit in May 2022 as a co-op student from the UBC iSchool’s dual MASLIS program. She is responsible for working directly with customers in the use of Artefactual software and services, as well as improving Artefactual’s hosted Digital Preservation Service. Maaike has previous experience working in several different fields ranging […]

Margo joined Artefactual in April 2018 and quickly proved herself invaluable by taking on numerous office operations that had gotten more and more complex over the years. Margo has nearly two decades of experience in bookeeping and administration. Prior to gaining that experience she attended Kwantlen University, where she took every course imaginable without ultimately […]

Mel first joined Artefactual in May 2021 as a co-op student from Douglas College, under the Computing Studies & Information Systems program.  She started work with the Support Team and now works as a Software Developer with the Projects Delivery Team. She is a quick learner constantly seeking new challenges and opportunities to learn and […]

Michelle joined Artefactual in 2018 as an archives consultant providing QA testing and documentation support for AtoM and Archivematica projects. Before coming to Artefactual, she completed various contracts in the areas of library, archives, information, and records management, most recently at the Simon Fraser University Archives. She is also an experienced technical writer, having spent […]

Mike is a highly versatile and experienced coder who works on both the Archivematicaand AtoM software. Mike has also worked tirelessly on many of Artefactual’s client data migration projects. Mike has nearly 15 years experience designing and developing web solutions using a range of technologies. He studied programming and artificial intelligence at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. An […]

Miguel came to Artefactual with a Degree in Computer Engineering from Universidad Europea de Madrid, along with too many certifications to mention. He has spent many years honing his skills in networking and perimeter security, ethical hacking, system analysis, system monitoring, virtualization and programming. Miguel, who works remotely from Sevilla, Spain, previously worked for Fujitsu, […]

Santiago Rodríguez Collazo lives in Spain and speaks Spanish, Gallego and English. Santi has deep experience in the open-source software world and in information security, which comes in handy for Artefactual’s various Archivematica and AtoM hosted sites and our development and technical support projects. Some of Santi’s pre-Artefactual projects have included co-founding the GNU/Linux Ubuntu-based Trisquel […]

Sara joined Artefactual in January 2016, moving across the continent from Toronto to add her talents to the AtoM and Archivematica projects. Holding a Master of Information in Archives and Records Management from the University of Toronto, Sara provides requirements analysis, user documentation, QA testing and community support for AtoM and Archivematica. Sara was formerly […]

Sarah joined Artefactual in May 2019 as a Systems Archivist based in the UK. She joined the team from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries where she was a Research Fellow (Outreach and Training) for the Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge project. Previously, she was a photographer involved in numerous digitisation projects and digital […]

Sarah leads the Archivematica open-source project, focusing on product roadmap and backlog management, release management and community engagement. Sarah is a graduate of the Dual MAS/MLIS program at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (2008), and for six years worked as an archivist for the Rare Books and Special Collections branch […]

Steve is an alumnus of Simon Fraser University (Bachelor of Science) and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (Diploma of Technology and Windows Application Development in C#.NET). His early work was in software development for the financial and health services sectors, but he later veered into the library world, working as a Programmer Analyst at […]

TJ is a developer from Toronto who joined Artefactual in January 2023 as an AtoM Maintainer. TJ has an academic background in Computer Science and Buddhist Psychology from the University of Toronto. They interned in several organizations for roles including software developer, blog writer, and online personal trainer. In their spare time, they enjoy reading […]