Greg Linch
Data Visuals Director - Editorial Newsroom
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Linch is a data-driven newsroom leader and senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building tools and workflows that scale across enterprise newsrooms. As Data + Visuals Director at Informa TechTarget, he leads a team delivering interactive graphics, templates and trend-tracking tools for 35+ business sites while training 120+ journalists in data journalism practices. He combines hands-on Django and AWS engineering—having built CMS features, an internal source database, landing-page tooling with webhook integrations, and election systems—with editorial product instincts to bridge newsroom, design and engineering teams. A former Washington Post data projects editor and adjunct instructor, he brings deep newsroom credibility and a knack for turning complex editorial needs into practical, reusable technical workflows. Notably, he has repeatedly shipped internal platforms (including an open-source Datawrapper deployment and a custom story template system) that improve reporting speed and audience-facing clarity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Western High SchoolUndergraduate Majors: Journalism and Political Science; Minor: Spanish, Undergraduate Majors: Journalism and Political Science; Minor: Spanish at University of MiamiCypress Bay High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (42)
health10
django-project10
google-oauth10
django9
pdf9
django-rest-framework9
science9
nginx8
database8
python8
elections8
virtualenv8
bulk-loader6
command-line6
psycopg6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcclatchy/mccelections
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
greglinch/sourcelist
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Django app to search or join a database of underrepresented experts. This version is geared to science, health and environment sources and journalists.
Contributions:596 commits, 50 PRs, 206 pushes in 5 years 11 months
pythonscienceunderrepresenteddjango-rest-frameworkdjango
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