J Bowden
Senior Web Developer at Virginia Department of Transportation
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJ Bowden is a Senior Web Developer based in Richmond, VA with 13 years building accessible, resilient web experiences across front-end and data-focused roles. He blends expert HTML/CSS/JS craftsmanship—especially responsive design, accessibility, and mapping/visualization with leaflet.js and d3—with back-end work in Python/Django/Flask, PHP/WordPress, and ETL for civic data. A longtime open-web and openness advocate (ex-Sunlight Foundation) and active contributor to projects like OpenStates scrapers, he has hands-on experience turning messy government data into structured, reusable datasets. His work on COVID Tracking Project dataops and nursing-home crosswalks highlights a knack for pragmatic automation and collaborative, volunteer-driven data engineering. Colleagues know him as someone who treats web development like play: rigorous, curious, and focused on making information more discoverable and accountable.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Information Systems, BA, Computer Information Systems at James Madison UniversityAdvanced, Virginia High School Curriculum, Advanced, Virginia High School Curriculum at Poquoson High School
English, html, css, javascript
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
e-government10
python10
open-government10
css10
scraper10
webscraping10
data-transformation10
data-extraction10
html10
g10
safari9
javascript9
twitter-bootstrap9
json9
jquery9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openstates/openstates-scrapers
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
source for Open States scrapers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:J primarily worked on converting scrapers from the Open States project to the Pupa data format. They implemented scrapers for the District of Columbia, focusing on extracting data related to people, committees, and bills. This involved modifying existing code, creating new files, and integrating with the Pupa framework to structure the data. The contributions demonstrate a focus on data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes within the context of government data.
scraperpythongovernmentscrapers
jalbertbowden/simplehtmldom
Aug 2013 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 5 years 3 months
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