Daigo Fujiwara-smith
Senior Newsroom Developer at Boston Globe Media
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaigo Fujiwara-smith is a Senior Newsroom Developer based in Portland, ME with 13 years in newsroom engineering and over 20 years of digital storytelling across journalism and visual journalism roles. He combines deep front-end expertise—JavaScript, React, Gatsby, responsive HTML/CSS—with a specialty in data visualization and visual storytelling that bridges design and engineering. Currently building interactive projects at The Boston Globe, he brings newsroom rigor to production-grade front ends and a keen eye from years as an information graphics artist. A lifelong learner and UX-trained practitioner, he pairs Adobe Creative Cloud design chops with modern web tooling to craft clear, data-driven narratives. He also founded and ran Baseball Hack Day, showing a knack for community-driven, domain-specific hackathons and rapid prototyping. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that make complex data approachable and visually compelling.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Northeastern UniversityUser Experience Certificate, User Experience Certificate at Bentley University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (32)
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vagrantfile9
daisy9
jekyll-theme9
derivative9
virtualbox9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
daigofuji/Visualization_RedSox_2012
Jun 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
daigofuji/bbclub-font
Sep 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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