Iris Lee
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIris Lee is a Technical Relationship Manager at Apple with nine years of experience building data-driven news applications and teaching data journalism. She blends newsroom engineering — as a former News Applications Developer at Reuters and assistant data and graphics editor at the Los Angeles Times — with product-facing roles in technical operations and client relationships. As an adjunct professor at USC she teaches Python for data journalism and coding for storytelling, mentoring journalists to turn large datasets into interactive narratives. Her toolkit spans Python, Django, D3, Svelte, GitHub Actions and deployment on Heroku, reflecting a full-stack approach to newsroom tooling. Iris’s background in chemistry and international studies, plus early experience in brand strategy at Procter & Gamble, gives her a rare mix of analytical rigor and audience-focused product sense. She maintains a public portfolio of her projects at irisslee.com, signaling a commitment to reproducible, open storytelling.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Journalism, Master’s Degree, Journalism at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (48)
data-journalism10
scraper10
estate10
parking10
california10
binder10
jupyter-notebook10
csv10
jupyter9
logistics9
calculator9
python9
lacp9
feed9
ats9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
irisslee/nasa-wildfires
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Download wildfire data from NASA satellites
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
pythonwildfiresatelliteswildfire-datanasa
irisslee/Capstone
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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