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Nathan R. Yergler is Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons. Since joining Creative Commons as a software engineer in 2004, Nathan has been responsible for ccPublisher, the web services, and the license engine. Recent projects include participation in the development of the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language and the technical and metadata architecture for CC0.
Prior to Creative Commons, Nathan was a faculty member at Canterbury School, a leading college preparatory school in Fort Wayne, Indiana. At Canterbury School Nathan developed an introductory computer programming curriculum based on the Python programming language.
Nathan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and resides in San Francisco, California with his dog, Madeline.