Benjamin Din
Lead Travel Writer at NerdWallet
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Din is a journalist-turned-technical storyteller with 11 years of experience blending data, design and front-end development to produce engaging digital reporting. Currently Lead Travel Writer at NerdWallet, he helps consumers maximize points and miles while applying data-driven SEO and automated tooling he built to streamline content production. His background includes stints at Politico, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal and deep experience in data cleaning and visualization from fellowships at Knight Lab and Texas Tribune. Self-taught in front-end development, he contributed UX improvements to the widely used TimelineJS project, enhancing scrolling, options and metadata features. Based in New York, he trains colleagues on best practices for working with data and often pairs code with editorial craft to turn complex finance and travel topics into actionable guidance. Colleagues describe him as a curious, pragmatic problem-solver who brings newsroom rigor to product-focused content.
11 years of coding experience
High School, High School at Fountain Valley High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Journalism, Bachelor’s Degree Journalism at Northwestern University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
css9
ui-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
TimelineJS v3: A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript. http://timeline.knightlab.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 15 pushes, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the front-end development of the TimelineJS v3 project. Their commits focused on enhancing the user interface, including the addition of smooth scrolling functionality and the implementation of a more comprehensive options menu for timeline generation. They also updated and fixed components such as preview buttons and the font menu, while also adding metadata titles. These changes directly impacted the user experience and functionality of the timeline creation process.
timelinejavascripttimelinejsstorytellingbuilt-in
bdin/bdin.github.io
Oct 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:638 commits, 491 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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