Anthony Pesce
Director Of U.S. Elections at Reuters
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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SeniorAnthony Pesce is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building data-driven, user-facing products for major news organizations. Currently directing the U.S. Elections product at Reuters after leading election engineering and site teams at The Washington Post, he specializes in real-time results, visualizations, data pipelines, and election modeling. He has a track record of scaling teams and systems for high-traffic events—hiring and promoting engineering managers and architecting the infrastructure that powered the 2024 election coverage. Prior work at the Los Angeles Times combined journalism and machine learning, from campaign finance ELT pipelines to models uncovering underreported crime classifications. Based in Washington, D.C., he blends newsroom instincts with full-stack technical depth, reliably shipping interactive experiences under tight deadlines. Notably, he pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership, turning complex election data into clear, trustable public-facing interfaces.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (39)
parser10
data-journalism10
django9
california9
shapefile8
python8
hubot8
etl7
svg7
django-project7
database7
journalism7
to-do6
census6
javascript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
anthonyjpesce/anthonyjpesce.github.io
Jun 2014 - Dec 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
datadesk/django-shp2svg
Nov 2012 - Jan 2016
Convert a shapefile into an SVG you can use with JavaScript libraries
Contributions:61 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
javascriptshapefilesvg
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