Isaac White
Engineering Manager at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsaac White is an engineering manager in New York with 11 years of experience building high-traffic frontend and backend systems for the publishing industry, primarily at The New York Times. He progressed from hands-on software engineering to staff-level architecture and program leadership, running election-readiness efforts, architecting newsroom data frameworks, and chairing the Architecture Review Board. Isaac led modernization of election publishing systems that served hundreds of millions of readers, built newsroom tools like the Skyscraper data acquisition framework and the open-sourced Library documentation wiki, and delivered platform-integrated developer previews to improve feature reliability. He pairs technical depth in full-stack development and accessibility-focused UI work with strategic roadmap-setting and cross-functional collaboration across large engineering and editorial teams. Notably, his Library project—backed by Google Docs—has seen widespread newsroom adoption and open-source traction, reflecting a talent for practical, reusable tools that bridge editorial and engineering needs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Innovator's DNA, Innovator's DNA at MIT Sloan Executive EducationPaul D. Schreiber Senior High SchoolLeadership Essentials, Leadership Essentials at Columbia Business School Executive EducationBachelor of Arts Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science at Columbia College, Columbia University
spanish (elementary proficiency)
Github Skills (11)
code-templates10
apptemplates10
cpp-templates10
html-template10
python-templates10
ejs10
expressjs9
javascript9
html9
nodejs8
css7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nytimes/library
Jun 2017 - Mar 2021
A collaborative documentation site, powered by Google Docs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 19 reviews, 265 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Isaac primarily contributed to the development of the `nytimes/library` repository, a collaborative documentation site. Their commits focused on implementing and refining features, with emphasis on the user interface by adding new templates like alternate, graphics, and a default template. The work included improving accessibility by adding a breadcrumb, creating section lists, and linking to drive files to provide a better user experience. The user also fixed bugs and improved formatting to improve code maintainability.
nodejsdocumentation-sitegoogle-docscollaborative
isaacwhite/isaacwhite.com
Mar 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:10 pushes in 9 years 3 months
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