Liam Andrew
Technology Lead, Product & AI Studio at American Journalism Project
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Andrew is a technology leader with 11 years of experience marrying engineering, product strategy, and journalism-focused digital media, currently leading the Product & AI Studio at the American Journalism Project in Austin. He progressed from software engineer to Chief Product Officer at The Texas Tribune, where he blended hands-on development, engineering management, and product leadership to modernize newsroom technology. Trained at MIT (Comparative Media Studies) and Yale, he brings a researcher’s curiosity and a communicator’s clarity to building tools that support public-interest journalism. Liam’s background spans startups, research labs, and nonprofits, and includes a rare mix of editorial-facing roles (translator/editor, Google Journalism Fellow) and technical leadership—useful when translating newsroom needs into production AI and product solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Comparative Media Studies, Master of Science (M.S.) Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.A. Interdisciplinary Literature, B.A. Interdisciplinary Literature at Yale University
French
Github Skills (71)
django10
django-project10
django-admin9
django-framework9
cms9
python9
django-cms9
django-blog9
jet9
admin-interface9
integrate9
django-rest8
listings8
rest-framework8
entity7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mailbackwards/refinance
Jun 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
texastribune/django-locking
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
Prevents users from doing concurrent editing in Django. Works out of the box in the admin interface, or you can integrate it with your own apps using a public API.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 6 years 3 months
apipythonadminboxdjango
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