Brandon Roberts
News Applications Developer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Roberts is a news applications developer and investigative journalist with 12 years of experience applying code, data and machine learning to watchdog reporting. Based in Seattle, he builds production tools and data systems for ProPublica while consulting for newsrooms worldwide, having modernized major projects like Nonprofit Explorer and led a Google News Initiative–funded collaborative sourcing tool. He blends backend engineering chops (including contributions to notable open-source projects in the bitcoin ecosystem) with a research background in computational journalism, and has presented work at NICAR, Computation + Journalism and KDD. He also designs practical AI training for journalists—his LSE course reached over 2,900 learners across 104 countries—showing a talent for translating technical complexity into newsroom-ready practice.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Cultural Anthropology, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Cultural Anthropology at Centralia College
Github Skills (7)
bitcoin10
javascript10
nodejs10
bitcoins10
network-protocol10
cryptography10
testing10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bitpay/bitcore
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
A full stack for bitcoin and blockchain-based applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase related to network configurations and private key handling. Their contributions included modularizing network version checks and tests, adding support for custom networks, and removing unnecessary code. They also addressed network mismatches by adding explicit tests.
full-stackcryptocurrencyblockchainbitcoin
brandonrobertz/hextractor
Dec 2018 - May 2022
Workbench module for Hext extraction of data
Contributions:106 commits, 14 PRs, 103 pushes in 3 years 5 months
extractionworkbench
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