Drew Wilson
Vice President Of Products at Verbatim Candle Co.
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Wilson is a product leader and public-interest technologist with 12 years of experience building news products, CMS migrations and data-driven reporting focused on Florida politics. As Vice President of Products at FloridaPolitics.com he blends journalism, policy expertise (state contracting, campaign finance, lobbying, gaming and courts) and hands-on web engineering across Drupal, WordPress, Bash, PHP, Python and R to ship newsletters, tools and editorial systems. He has a proven track record migrating large, asset-heavy sites to modern, accessible platforms and scaling editorial workflows that power daily flagship newsletters. Outside newsrooms he founded a sustainability-minded candle company and applies the same practicality to product decisions—balancing user needs, regulatory nuance and technical constraints. Based in Gainesville, Drew positions technical work as a form of civic engagement, describing himself as a public interest computer scientist.
12 years of coding experience
Associate of Arts (AA), Journalism, Associate of Arts (AA), Journalism at Santa Fe Community CollegeBachelor's Degree, Journalism, Bachelor's Degree, Journalism at University of Florida
English, Latin
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Github Skills (174)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
drewrwilson/pizzaweek
Dec 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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drewrwilson/netposi
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:67 commits, 5 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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