Jake Kara
Software Engineer at biglocalnews
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJake Kara is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building applications that support investigation and storytelling for journalism and the digital humanities. Based in the New York City area, he blends a professional writing background with advanced software engineering training from Harvard Extension School, including an MLA in Computer Software Engineering. He focuses on newsroom engineering—translating editorial needs into reliable tooling that helps reporters find, verify, and present complex stories. Comfortable across the stack, Jake pairs pragmatic product sensibilities with engineering rigor to deliver user-centered investigative workflows. His unusual combination of narrative craft and technical depth makes him adept at turning messy data into clear, publishable narratives.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Professional Writing, Bachelor of Arts, Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State UniversityGraduate Certificate, Software Engineering, Graduate Certificate, Software Engineering at Harvard Extension School
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Github Skills (106)
javascript9
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python9
react9
frontend9
edges9
graph-drawing9
nodes9
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declarative8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jakekara/essay-formatter
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Site builder for the Fortunoff Critical Editions software
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years
criticalsite-buildereditionsphpbuilder
margo-notebooks/margo-loader-py
Dec 2020 - Nov 2024
Load Jupyter Notebooks as Python modules
Contributions:10 releases, 40 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 11 months
jupyter
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