Jason Norwood-young
Founder at Sourcery.info
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJason Norwood-young is a founder and seasoned technologist with 15 years of professional coding and two decades of experience blending technology, journalism, and open data to drive civic impact. He builds products that help newsrooms grow revenue and engagement—currently leading MavEngine and 10Layer while founding Sourcery.info—to turn data into actionable reader insights. A reformed technology journalist, he has led digital teams at major outlets like Mail & Guardian and Daily Maverick and ran a CMS used by prominent South African publishers. He also directs OpenUp and runs the Naked Data newsletter, connecting journalists, activists and officials around practical open-data work. Notably, his projects marry newsroom-savvy product design with large-scale data pipelines (a Google News Initiative-backed RFVEngine among them), reflecting a rare mix of editorial instinct and hands-on engineering.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Rhodes University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (162)
integrations10
parliament10
cli10
open-data10
ifttt10
docker10
selenium10
release-management10
no-code9
ai9
rpa9
productivity-tools9
api9
sphinx-doc9
near9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
10layer/10Layer-LS
Jul 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:767 commits in 2 years 1 month
j-norwood-young/revengine-wordpress
May 2020 - Apr 2024
Data from the reader's perspective - the Wordpress plugin
Contributions:5 PRs, 123 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
perspectivewordpress-apiwordpresspostsreader
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