Andrew Fischer
Senior Software Engineer & Elections Data Lead
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Fischer is a Senior Software Engineer and Elections Data Lead at The New York Times with 12 years of experience building production web systems and data-driven news products. He has progressed through engineering roles at NYT—from associate to senior lead—where he blends back-end API work, data integration, and product-facing engineering for high-profile journalism. His GitHub contributions include back-end Google API integrations for the widely used nytimes/library docs platform, showing a knack for practical server-side solutions that bridge content workflows and developer tooling. A UPenn computational biology and computer science graduate, Andrew pairs analytical rigor with newsroom-focused product instincts and a track record of shipping reliable systems under tight editorial deadlines.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stuyvesant High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computational Biology Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computational Biology Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
google-api10
javascript10
googleapis10
apidoc9
api9
nodejs9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nytimes/library
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
A collaborative documentation site, powered by Google Docs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 51 reviews, 238 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the back-end logic and API interaction of the project. Their commits reflect updates to Google APIs, which implies involvement in server-side Google services. They also made code modifications within JavaScript files, specifically updating the latest versions of google APIs, which points to back-end development activities.
google-docs
afischer/afischer.github.io
Mar 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
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