Summary
Andrew Mcgill is a product strategist, designer, and developer with about 12 years of experience turning journalism-driven ideas into polished digital products. He led interactive teams at The Atlantic and POLITICO, relaunching award-winning apps and running best-in-class election rigs, and now runs his own consultancy helping founders launch delightful products. As a lecturer at Penn State he teaches practical data journalism and visualization—taking students from spreadsheets to SQL and Tableau—and has a knack for blending newsroom rigor with rapid prototyping. Known for tinkering outside work, he scrapes neighborhood data, builds IoT gadgets, and prototypes parenting apps, bringing a maker’s curiosity to client projects. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines storytelling, UX, and engineering to ship products that surface meaningful data and user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Journalism, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Journalism at Penn State University