Albert Sun
Data Graphics Journalist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Sun is a Data/Graphics Journalist with 15 years of experience shaping interactive storytelling at The New York Times, where he blends journalism, design and engineering to build data-driven graphics and tools. He began as an interactive developer and rose through editorial and platform roles, bringing newsroom product sensibility to complex visual reporting. Equally at home writing code and crafting narratives, he contributes to notable open-source projects—improving Ruby libgit2 bindings and adding social-media agents to the popular Huginn automation framework—demonstrating a strong back-end and full-stack skill set. Based in New York, he pairs newsroom instincts with rigorous testing and bug-fix discipline, a combination that helps turn messy data into clear, engaging public-facing visuals.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (20)
git10
ruby-rails10
libgit210
apidoc10
testing10
rails10
twitter-api10
ruby10
libgit2sharp10
agent10
api10
json9
webscraping9
automation9
test-automation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
huginn/huginn
Apr 2013 - Aug 2017
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 15 PRs, 83 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the development of agents within the Huginn framework, focusing on Twitter and Weibo integrations. They implemented new agents for publishing and fetching data from these platforms, specifically developing functionalities for Twitter user timelines and publishing tweets. Further contributions include enhancements to the website agent for more versatile data extraction from various web sources, along with the implementation of custom response headers. The user also made improvements to the core framework, like fixing event backfilling and migrating to a JSON-based serialization method.
rssmonitornotificationshuginnmonitoring
libgit2/rugged
Mar 2014 - Sep 2015
ruby bindings to libgit2
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Albert focused on enhancing the `rugged` library, specifically addressing clone functionality and tree building. They refactored existing clone options, introduced a new `checkout_branch` option, and incorporated comprehensive tests to validate the correctness of these modifications. Furthermore, the user corrected a bug related to the `remove` method in the tree builder, demonstrating a commitment to code quality through testing and bug fixes within the library.
libgit2ruby-bindingsruby
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