Kai Teoh
Data & Interactive News Editor
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Teoh is a data-driven news leader with 11 years of experience building newsroom technology and interactive storytelling, currently directing a seven-person multidisciplinary team at The Dallas Morning News. He combines editorial judgment with hands-on engineering—architecting election rigs, CI/CD pipelines, data scrapers, and public-facing dashboards like “Future of North Texas” to turn complex datasets into impactful journalism. His projects have earned recognition from IRE, NICAR, ONA and other industry awards, reflecting a steady record of enterprise reporting and collaborative investigations. Beyond the newsroom, he advises startups and academic programs—helping translate product vision into scalable data pipelines and mentoring the next generation of journalism technologists. Based in Spokane, he brings a rare blend of newsroom product leadership and developer chops, comfortable shifting between code, design, and editorial strategy. Colleagues note his knack for modernizing legacy systems while keeping design and user experience central to how audiences engage with data.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Political Economy;, Bachelor of Science, Print Journalism, Bachelor of Arts, Political Economy;, Bachelor of Science, Print Journalism at St. Cloud State UniversitySMK Damansara JayaAmerican Degree Transfer Program, Mass Communication, American Degree Transfer Program, Mass Communication at INTI
English, Chinese, Chinese, Malay, hokkien/teochew
Github Skills (52)
git10
github10
patch9
1password9
lazyload8
user-interaction8
subversion8
wordpress8
normal8
responsive-images8
loader8
amcharts8
prerender7
lazy-loading7
interaction7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DallasMorningNews/dpd-calls-scraper
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Scraper for DPD calls for service, running on AWS Lambda
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
dpdcallsserverlessaws-lambdaaws
tjk911/lohud-newsletter
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
custom-scriptprestoresponsivenewsletter
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