Demian Perry
Digital Director at Science News Magazine
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDemian Perry is a digital product leader with 11+ years building high-impact mobile and web experiences for major media organizations and startups, including NPR, The Washington Post, Yahoo!, and Science News. He led the launch and growth of NPR's mobile presence and NPR One, saving NPR nearly $1M by creating a rate-limited Data API and driving engagement to tens of millions of monthly users. Skilled at bridging product, engineering, and business, he has repeatedly scaled teams and pipelines—boosting project velocity by 400% at Remedy and tripling subscription revenue at Science News through metered paywalls. His background blends an MBA in finance and quantitative analysis with hands-on technical chops in Python, front-end deployment, analytics and personalization algorithms, enabling pragmatic data-driven product decisions. Known for turning exploratory research into production systems, he also brings developer-relations and IoT experience to complex partnership and growth challenges.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at Sewanee-The University of the SouthMBA, Finance, Quantitative Analysis, MBA, Finance, Quantitative Analysis at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
English
Github Skills (21)
npr8
python6
linux5
conda5
stock4
package-management4
finance4
yahoo4
financial-data3
wordpress-plugin3
yahoo-finance-api3
chrome3
json3
sec3
ecosystem3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
perrydc/npr
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
A self-authenticating method for accessing NPR APIs in Python
Contributions:75 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
nprmethodpython
perrydc/floog
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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