Paul Ford
Co-Founder at Ftrain.com
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Ford is a seasoned founder, writer, and technologist with 16+ years building product-driven companies and communicating complex ideas through code and prose. As co-founder of Aboard and the long-time architect of Postlight—grown into a 100-person digital studio and later sold to NTT Data—he blends hands-on engineering, product design, and business leadership. He’s also a prolific cultural and tech essayist (WIRED, Harper’s, Bloomberg Businessweek) who won a National Magazine Award for a deep issue on code, and who founded the quirky Unix community tilde.club. Based in New York, he teaches interaction design and crafts data-driven narratives about climate and media, pairing editorial instincts with practical systems thinking. Not obviously: he’s as comfortable shipping APIs and large platforms as he is mining corpora for editorial patterns and turning them into products.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BA English Literature, BA English Literature at Alfred UniversityHigh School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Milton Hershey School
Github Skills (41)
fact10
data-journalism10
sliders10
mercury9
spreadsheet9
csv9
tilde9
parser8
react8
datasets8
datasette8
javascript8
json7
fact-checking7
django7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
postlight/account
May 2020 - Nov 2020
📚️ ➕ 🔢 Tell little stories with numbers
Contributions:39 commits, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 months
reactdataexpr-evalslidersjavascript
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