James Cuénod

Welcome to my portfolio website. My name is James Cuénod and you can find more about me here. I hope to direct you to information about my two basic interests: biblical studies (particularly the Old Testament) and software development.

I have a PhD in Biblical Theology, specializing in Old Testament. My research area is Sabbath Theology. To find out more about my work in the biblical studies arena, take a look here.

Since my PhD, I have been working in the Bible translation technology sphere. I do an embarrassing amount of hobbyist programming - embarrassing because, given the quantity one would expect the quality to be somewhat superior. Nevertheless, if you are interested in that you can see more about my software adventures here. One of my main projects is parabible.com—a tool that aids in original langauge exegesis. It uses Clickhouse (OLAP DB) and a UDF written in Rust to do pretty sophisticated queries blindingly fast. It’s always a work in progress :).

A lot of the development I do tends to be at the intersection between my discipline of biblical studies my interest in using computers to make that work better/easier so I guess it’s a kind of digital humanities but certainly counts as the intersection between bible and technology. Sometimes, I blog about that intersection here.

My current side project is an online tool that cleans up scans (e.g., book chapters and journal articles) to help researchers annotate and search their documents. It automatically rotates skew pages, removes border noise, and binarizes pages, which improves OCR quality. It runs on Cloudflare workers & pages, Supabase, and Stripe. The processing is done on Docker Swarm in my homelab using Machine Learning and a bunch of vision processing (OpenCV) tricks. It’s live right now at https://fixpdfs.com.

If you have any questions or want to hunt me down for some reason (other than malice), please feel free to make contact!