Jonah Smith
Graphics Multimedia Editor at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonah Smith is a Senior Graphics Developer in New York with 12 years of experience building interactive, data-driven visual storytelling systems for major newsrooms and museums. He has led cross-disciplinary engineering teams at The New York Times—driving live coverage, site-wide architecture, and large-scale data analysis—and now shapes graphics at The Athletic. Jonah blends front-end artistry and back-end rigor: he’s processed petabyte-scale voter data for national reporting, maintained core news rendering systems, and built interactive museum exhibits and cloud infrastructure. He contributes full-stack code to open-source projects such as packagephobia, adding comparison and parsing features that span client and server logic. Comfortable guiding strategy with senior leaders and shipping fast for newsroom deadlines, he pairs journalism-trained reporting instincts with computer-science credentials from Columbia. A lesser-known strength: he’s repeatedly built production tooling that turns complex, real-time data streams into simple, embeddable experiences for broad audiences.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Journalism, Master of Science (M.S.) Journalism at Columbia University - Graduate School of JournalismMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Columbia EngineeringBachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology and Statistics at Columbia University
English, Spanish, Danish
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
npm10
react10
typescript-types10
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
nextjs9
performance-analysis8
performance-monitor8
co8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
styfle/packagephobia
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Jonah primarily worked on adding a comparison feature to the application, which involved both front-end and back-end changes. They implemented new pages, components, and routing, while also adding server-side logic to fetch and process package size data. They also integrated a redirect feature and error handling for parsing package.json uploads. Additionally, the user added an auto-submit function for the file input.
npm-packagenpm-moduleperformancedisk-spacenpms
cswatt/narratr
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:206 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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