Alexander Cohen
Data And I.T. Consultant
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Cohen is a seasoned Data and IT consultant based in Washington, D.C., with over a decade of hands-on experience turning messy public records and APIs into actionable insight for newsrooms, nonprofits, and private clients. He combines investigative rigor from a long career in data journalism—leading projects at Reuters, CNN, Bloomberg Industry Group and multiple investigative outlets—with practical engineering skills such as AWS Lambda deployments, S3-backed data pipelines and Jupyter-driven analysis. He has a track record of building automated data tools that materially improved reporting and decision-making, from campaign finance trackers to large-scale SEC document scraping. Comfortable mentoring teams and operating solo, he blends project management and technical delivery to recover, organize and analyze complex datasets. An admirer of the First Amendment, he brings a civic-minded approach to data work that often uncovers policy-relevant stories and systemic patterns.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, BA, History at Grinnell College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
docker-desktop9
stored-procedures7
graph-algorithms7
neo4j-database7
neo4j7
procedures7
memgraph6
neo4j-plugin6
apoc5
cypher5
graph-database5
graph5
finance4
docker4
macos3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
capitolmuckrakr/cnn-fec
May 2019 - Aug 2022
campaign finance app for FEC reports, forked from newsdev/nyt-fec
Contributions:1 PR, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
fecnytreportsfinancecampaign-finance
capitolmuckrakr/clark_courts
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:24 PRs, 25 pushes, 18 branches in 5 years 4 months
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