Martin Burch
Senior Data Engineer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Burch is a Senior Data Engineer with 12 years’ experience connecting people and information systems across journalism, finance, and fintech. He blends expertise in relational databases, ethical web scraping, and strategic one-page plans to turn economic, market, and political data into actionable pipelines and products. His career spans newsroom data roles at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones to lead engineering and senior data roles at fast-moving companies like Kinetic, Heroes, and Crezco, demonstrating an ability to move from storytelling to production-scale systems. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs a journalism MA and a BA in Business Information Systems with hands-on engineering to ensure data is both accurate and usable. He’s especially skilled at translating editorial and business requirements into auditable data workflows, and prefers pragmatic, transparent solutions over opaque complexity.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts Journalism, Master of Arts Journalism at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBachelor of Arts Journalism Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts Journalism Business Information Systems at New Mexico State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
semantic-ui10
pagination10
bulma10
bootstrap-table10
fomantic-ui10
checkbox10
foundation10
css-frameworks10
vue10
materialize10
bootstrap10
css10
datatables10
semantic10
peewee10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wsjdata/clinton-email-cruncher
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Download Hillary Clinton's emails and query them with sqlite
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
querypythonemailssqlitepython2
martinburch/table-service
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
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