Dan Simmons-ritchie
Software Engineer at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Simmons-ritchie is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building data-driven, user-facing systems for major newsrooms and nonprofit organizations, currently on The New York Times Interactive News team. He excels at full-stack development, data visualization, web scraping, and newsroom automation—having designed and maintained 400+ scrapers, led major CMS feature work, and delivered award-winning interactive journalism. Dan pairs practical engineering (Node, React, Python, D3, PostgreSQL, AWS) with investigative instincts, using statistical and geospatial analysis to surface stories and build tools that save reporters hundreds of hours. He has repeatedly improved performance and reliability—boosting Lighthouse scores, refactoring legacy stacks, and creating monitoring and outage-reporting tooling. Comfortable collaborating with contractors and academics, he’s also explored LLM-based scraping approaches to future-proof data collection.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
National diploma in journalism (multimedia) Journalism, National diploma in journalism (multimedia) Journalism at Whitireia Community PolytechnicBachelor of Arts (BA) English Literature Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Literature Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (74)
python10
scrapy10
data-journalism10
scrape10
open-data10
static-site10
spotlight10
scraper10
d3-geo9
dayjs8
arrows8
topojson7
nodejs7
geo7
svg6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
City-Bureau/city-scrapers-akr
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
City Scrapers project for Akron
Contributions:1 review, 38 PRs, 56 pushes in 6 months
city-scraperspythonscrapyscrapersopen-data
SimmonsRitchie/business-days-js
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Determines whether a given date is a US business day.
Contributions:90 commits, 13 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 month
pennsylvaniajavascriptcalendardayjs
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