Gerald Rich
Developer at GRAM Studio
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGerald Rich is a developer with 13 years of experience building data-driven journalism products and interactive news tools, currently focused on local news at Big Local News and co-leading engineering at GRAM Studio. He brings deep newsroom chops from roles at The Associated Press, The Atlantic, and Axios, where he built CMS integrations, election microservices, and interactive graphics using React, Svelte, D3.js, and AWS. With a BA in Economics and product management training, he blends product thinking with hands-on engineering to turn complex datasets into engaging visual stories. His work earned a Society for News Design Award of Excellence, and he often ships newsroom tooling as well as consumer-facing features—an investor in journalistic infrastructure as much as storytelling. Based in San Francisco, he combines a journalist’s rigor with a developer’s focus on deployable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management, Product Management at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts - BA Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics at The University of Texas at Austin
French
Stackoverflow
1,524reputation
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35answers
8questions
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leaflet
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Github Skills (160)
storybook10
extendscript10
excel10
clipboard10
hybrid10
javascript10
spreadsheet10
browser10
react-framework10
compiler10
csv10
cli10
data-science10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
newsroomdev/rats
Aug 2013 - Aug 2019
Playing with Boston 311 data and breaking out NPR's News Apps template to be reusable with the NPR bits.
Contributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 1 month
nprreact311-datanews-appsbits
biglocalnews/clean-scraper
May 2024 - Jan 2025
Scraper library and CLI tool to harvest police bodycam footage and other files as part of the Community Law Enforcement Accountability Project (CLEAN)
Contributions:65 reviews, 56 PRs, 130 pushes in 8 months
cleanscraper
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