Chris Amico
Senior Developer at MuckRock Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Amico is a senior developer and journalist with 16 years of experience building storytelling tools, data-driven reporting platforms, and community news products for organizations from local papers to national outlets. He blends Python, Django, Go and JavaScript expertise with a reporter’s instinct for structure, having co-founded Glass Eye Media, led interactive teams at FRONTLINE and PBS NewsHour, and most recently maintained DocumentCloud at MuckRock. Chris designs systems that let non-technical editors publish rich, bespoke narratives at scale—one project enabled unique presentations for thousands of stories without developer intervention. Equally comfortable writing prose or code, he specializes in structured journalism and multimedia storytelling around topics like climate, food systems, and criminal justice. A habit of dissecting institutions and connecting moving parts gives him a knack for turning messy datasets and bureaucracies into clear, usable stories and tools.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzChinese 中文, Chinese 中文 at Dalian University of Technology
Stackoverflow
139reputation
8kreached
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Github Skills (157)
python10
api-client10
datasette10
sqlite-database10
datasets10
python-client10
asgi10
rows10
zipcode10
django10
geopandas10
api10
webapp10
sql10
yaml10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eyeseast/ulysses-js
Aug 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 58 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 8 months
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eyeseast/geocoder-comparison
Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
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