Pierre Zhang
Chief Technology Officer at International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolPierre Zhang is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building collaborative, data-driven platforms for investigative journalism from Paris. Since 2017 he has led the ICIJ engineering team that developed the tools behind global investigations such as the Pandora Papers, Uber Files, FinCEN Files and Panama Papers, combining Python, Ruby, JavaScript, NLP and graph databases to make millions of documents explorable. A former co-founder of Journalism++ and early lead developer at OWNI, he has deep hands-on experience with Django, Rails, Neo4j and scalable infrastructure patterns (Heroku, Varnish, Memcached) as well as a strong practice in TDD and open-source publishing. He also taught data journalism and interactive storytelling at Sciences Po and ESJ Lille, bringing a user-centered approach to both product and pedagogy. Notably, his work focuses on making complex investigative workflows accessible to hundreds of collaborating journalists across borders, marrying rigorous engineering with journalistic impact.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, DUT Informatique, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at Université Pierre Mendès-France (Grenoble II)
French, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
describe10
expressjs10
python10
chat10
elasticsearch10
collaboration10
javascript10
nodejs-server10
content-extraction10
playing10
data-protection10
solr10
spinner10
devtools10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ICIJ/prophecies
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
An ICIJ app to conduct data validation and cleaning.
Contributions:10 reviews, 755 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 5 months
cleaningvalidationicijdata-validationdjango
fledit/fledit.js
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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