Jacob Sanders
Computational Journalist
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Sanders is a computational journalist and software engineer with a decade of experience blending investigative reporting, data engineering, and product-focused development across newsrooms, nonprofits, and startups. He's led technical strategy and built tooling for complex ETL, scraping, and schema design—helping organizations preserve source context rather than flattening it—most recently at The Dallas Morning News and the Police Data Accessibility Project. Comfortable across Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and automation with CI/CD patterns, he has saved operational costs through pragmatic performance and deployment improvements. He teaches and mentors, having developed university courses that put code in the service of journalism, and advises clients on data strategy and reusable parsing tools. Based in Portland, he pairs a reporter’s curiosity with an engineer’s pragmatism to turn messy public records into auditable, actionable datasets.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism, Journalism at University of Nevada, Renocertificate Computer Software Engineering, certificate Computer Software Engineering at V School
Github Skills (28)
camp10
django9
python8
orm8
scraper8
django-framework8
webscraping7
transparency7
static-html7
databases6
orleans5
axe3
php3
web-framework3
warc3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thejqs/pa_wine_shippers
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
thejqs/plcb
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:403 commits, 1 PR, 301 pushes in 11 months
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