Dhruv Mehrotra
Data Journalism And Investigations
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDhruv Mehrotra is a data journalist and investigations reporter with 11 years of experience blending journalism, data science, and hands-on engineering to expose complex stories at Bloomberg News and previously WIRED, Reveal, and Gizmodo. Trained at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, he brings a rare mix of political science grounding and technical fluency—having built low-cost cellular networks and worked with software-defined radios at NYU’s RiskEcon Lab. His background includes artist‑in‑residence practice and open-source crisis-response web development, reflecting a creative approach to data-driven storytelling and public-interest technology. Known for turning messy datasets into investigative narratives, he thrives at the intersection of code, design, and accountability reporting.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science and Government at New York UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Computer Science and Art, Master of Arts (M.A.), Computer Science and Art at NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program
Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (50)
recovery10
spoiler10
amazon10
json9
vpc9
internet9
subnet9
disaster-recovery8
aws8
route538
codebase7
cellular-network7
linkedin6
machine-learning6
gsm5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dmehrotra/fuck-off-aws
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
Amazon publishes a list of the IP addresses they control here: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json . What follows is a way to prevent yourself / the websites you visit from reaching out to AWS machines. Spoiler alert: The internet becomes pretty un-useable.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years 1 month
alertvpcroute53machinesspoiler-alert
dmehrotra/twitter-bot-class
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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