Evan Wagstaff
Director Of Newsroom Engineering at Hearst Newspapers
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Wagstaff is a newsroom engineering leader with a decade of experience building interactive news applications and newsroom tools, currently directing newsroom engineering at Hearst Newspapers from California. He blends a multimedia journalism background and hands-on engineering—having built a custom Backbone.js CMS and delivered award-winning special projects at the Los Angeles Times—with product-focused development at SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle. Evan’s work emphasizes streamlining reporter workflows and crafting elegant web-native storytelling experiences that strengthen a publication’s online brand. Notably, he contributed to the Pulitzer-winning San Bernardino coverage and has a graduate degree from UC Berkeley’s Journalism School, giving him rare credibility at the intersection of editorial and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Journalism, Masters, Journalism at University of California, BerkeleyB.A., Global Studies, B.A., Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara
Spanish
Github Skills (102)
tiles10
storybook10
mapbox-gl10
maplibre-gl10
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
react-framework10
cartography10
compiler10
maps10
gatsby10
static-site-generator10
vector-tiles10
typescript10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ewagstaff/youareplayerone
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:170 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
sfchronicle/react-newsapp
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:102 commits, 28 pushes in 6 months
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