Michelle Pera-mcghee
Senior Journalist-Engineer at The Pudding
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Pera-mcghee is a Senior Journalist-Engineer based in Berkeley with a decade of experience crafting visual and interactive stories for the web. She progressed from junior to senior roles at The Pudding, blending data visualization, front-end engineering, and narrative design to make complex topics accessible and engaging. Her background includes visualization work at Axios, software internships at GitHub and Apple, and full-stack engineering experience, giving her a rare fluency across storytelling and production-grade code. Michelle also teaches journalism and computing—recently lecturing at UC Berkeley and Brandeis—bringing classroom-tested techniques back to newsroom projects. Her portfolio of interactive pieces (https://mmcghee18.github.io/) signals a hands-on maker ethos and attention to design detail that complements her CS training from Stanford.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program, Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (24)
alex7
svelte5
yeoman5
python5
lstm-neural-networks4
spell4
yeoman-generator4
axios4
jupyter-notebook3
handwriting3
arxiv3
recurrent3
generator3
typescript3
nextjs2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
the-pudding/sesame
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 20 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 9 months
the-pudding/genre
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:16 PRs, 121 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
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