Andrew Chavez
Newsroom Software Engineer at The New York Times
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Chavez is a newsroom software engineer with 12 years bridging journalism and code, currently building tools and workflows for The New York Times after shaping computational reporting at The Dallas Morning News. He blends newsroom experience—from reporter and editor roles to directing digital media—with hands-on engineering to turn complex data and editorial needs into production-ready news apps. A former lecturer and longtime coding journalist active in the news developer community, he focuses on making data-driven stories more accessible and automatable. Based in Dallas, he pairs academic training in news-editorial journalism with practical product-building instincts and a knack for translating newsroom problems into scalable technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
NewsFooBachelor of Arts, News-Editorial Journalism, Bachelor of Arts, News-Editorial Journalism at Texas Christian UniversitySpark Camp
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
google-docs10
yeoman9
django8
yeoman-generator8
socrata7
dmn7
data-journalism7
wordpress7
grunt-task6
static-site6
california6
python6
metaboxes6
testing6
react5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DallasMorningNews/gulp-archieml
Mar 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
DallasMorningNews/python-testing-101
May 2017 - Jan 2019
NICAR session on Python testing
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
pythontesting
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