Jonathan Levy
Data Portal Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Levy is a data and open-government leader with 11+ years running the City of Chicago’s Data Portal and spearheading its open data program, including building an open-source ETL framework and automating large-scale dataset refreshes. He blends deep technical chops in SQL, ETL, databases and metadata quality with hands-on program management—managing vendors, cross-department stakeholder relationships, and a growing team. His background in public health and epidemiology informs a practical focus on data quality, transparency, and public accountability. A frequent speaker and practitioner, he has turned operational bottlenecks into 10x performance improvements and made civic data more usable for residents, developers, and policymakers. Not obvious from the title: he’s comfortable translating commissioner-level priorities into reproducible data pipelines and has long experience supporting FOIA workflows and regulatory reporting like taxi/ride-share analytics.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Public Health - Epidemiology, Public Health - Epidemiology at University of Illinois at ChicagoHigh School, High School at University of Chicago Laboratory SchoolsMaster of Science - MS, Public Management and Policy, Master of Science - MS, Public Management and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (68)
core-platform10
socrata10
soda10
updating10
data-api9
open-data9
feed8
r8
mobility8
datasets8
historical8
interaction8
combine8
explore8
throttling8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Chicago/tnp-reporting-manual
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
Chicago data reporting rules for Transportation Network Providers
Contributions:3 releases, 38 commits, 29 PRs in 6 years 1 month
chicagotransportationreportingproviderstransportation-network
Chicago/dev.cityofchicago.org
Jun 2017 - Aug 2021
Developer resources provided by the City of Chicago and sister agencies and get technical updates from the developer blog.
Contributions:180 commits, 83 PRs, 230 pushes in 4 years 2 months
chicagoagenciesupdatesdeveloper-blogdeveloper-resources
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