Carla Astudillo
News Application Developer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarla Astudillo is a news applications developer with 12 years of experience building interactive data journalism and tools that help readers explore complex datasets, currently at ProPublica after a multi-year stint leading data visuals at The Texas Tribune. Her work blends journalism, coding, and design—specializing in elections, political data and investigative projects such as a statewide police use-of-force database—turning messy public records into clear, personalized experiences. A Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism alum with roots in Florida and Chile, she pairs newsroom rigor with front-end and data-wrangling chops honed across legacy and digital-native outlets. Colleagues rely on her to translate investigative needs into usable apps and graphics that scale for broad audiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism, Online, Interactive, Video, Journalism, Online, Interactive, Video at CUNY Graduate School of JournalismBachelor of Science (B.S.), Journalism, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Journalism at University of Florida
Spanish
Github Skills (27)
searchable8
visuals6
responsive6
rest-api5
nodejs5
api5
restful5
transparency5
javascript5
restful-api4
finance4
database4
python3
fundamentals3
scaffolding3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CarlaAstudillo/feats_thru_sheets
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:40 commits in 7 months
eventsjavascriptfilterabledatabasesearchable
CarlaAstudillo/NJAM-datatables
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
NJ Advance Media responsive data tables
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 4 years 1 month
responsivedata-tables
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