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Jeremy's resume for the 2017 ONA student newsroom mentorship program.
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Jeremy Bowers

I lead a team of Interactive News developers with a broad mandate to enhance our report by combining coding skills with journalistic sensibilities. Our team is aggressively collaborative — building tools to help reporters; we team with our computer-assisted reporters and data journalists; and we work with graphics editors to envision new presentations for data on the web.

The New York Times: 2014 -

Senior Editor, News Applications, Interactive News Technologies (INT)

  • Elections 2016: Rewrote our elections stack, replacing a decade-old Rails app with a suite of open-source tools now in use by The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, NPR and McClatchy.
  • World Cup(s): Rewrote our World Cup stack, providing real-time scores, stats and visualization for our coverage.
  • Beats: Contributed code and bylines to our Supreme Court, Congress and campaign finance coverage.
  • Infrastructure: Maintained our elections / campaign finance server stack responsible for serving ~12k requests per second on Amazon Web Services.

NPR: 2012 - 2014

News Applications Developer, NPR Visuals

  • Elections 2012: Worked on an ONA award-winning elections project, contributing code from the data models to the frontend.
  • Contributed code to several open-source projects including pym.js and the NPR App Template.

The Washington Post: 2010 - 2012

Senior Newsroom Developer, Washington Post News Apps

  • Sports API: Architected, built and maintained a real-time sports API that fed our web site, several mobile apps and the occasional email newsletter.
  • Elections 2012: Maintained a server stack responsible for serving ~2k requests per second on physical hardware and Amazon Web Services.
  • Open-source: Contributed to several open-source software projects and four (now defunct) APIs.

The St. Petersburg Times: 2006 - 2010

Newsroom Technologist

  • PolitiFact: With Matt Waite, rewrote Politifact entirely over a six-week sprint to support state partnerships.
  • Infrastructure: Maintained a server stack responsible for ~50% of the Times's web traffic for less than $200 per month on cloud-based hosting.

Ephemera

  • B.A. Political Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, 2006
  • Coach of the Year, Cross-Examination Debate Association (CEDA) District 6, 2009
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