Jacob Fenton
Software Developer at OpenAQ Inc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Fenton is a software developer with 15 years of experience building data-driven web applications, investigative tools, visualizations, and custom ETL pipelines for newsrooms and public-interest projects. He has a strong track record as a contractor for major media organizations and has led newsroom engineering at outlets including NPR, the Investigative Reporting Workshop, and the Sunlight Foundation. Currently working on air-quality data and visualizations at OpenAQ, Jacob blends backend systems (Python, Django, Node, AWS, PostgreSQL) with front-end mapping and cartography to make complex datasets discoverable and reproducible. His background in investigative reporting and a BA in physics give him a rare mix of storytelling curiosity and analytical rigor, and he’s known for translating messy document dumps and civic datasets into auditable, publishable analysis.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Reed College
Github Skills (106)
char10
google-sheets-api-v410
google-sheets10
google-sheets-api10
gspread10
spreadsheet10
pdf-parsing10
jaro-winkler10
location10
shapefile10
csv10
spatial-data10
demographics10
pdf10
capacity10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jsfenfen/990-xml-admin
Mar 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 comments, 3 issues in 5 years
jsfenfen/990-xml-database
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
Django app to consume and store 990 data and metadata
Contributions:87 commits, 5 PRs, 73 pushes in 4 years 8 months
django
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