Ritchie King
Staff Data Visualization Engineer (L6)
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRitchie King is a Staff Data Visualization Engineer with 13 years of experience translating complex data into clear, engaging visual stories across top-tier news and tech organizations. After a long stint at FiveThirtyEight refining narrative graphics, he spent several years at Netflix advancing data visualization at scale and now holds a senior technical role driving visualization strategy and tooling. Trained in engineering and science journalism (Dartmouth and NYU), he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with newsroom-honed storytelling to make data accessible to broad audiences. Based in Los Gatos, he routinely bridges design, engineering, and editorial teams to ship production-ready visual systems and has a rare background that spans lab-scale process engineering to high-impact media graphics.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Engineering, B.E., Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering - Dartmouth CollegeMA in Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting, Journalism, MA in Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting, Journalism at New York UniversityB.A., Engineering modified with Environmental Science, B.A., Engineering modified with Environmental Science at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (24)
code-behind10
visualization9
tidyverse8
tibble6
tidy6
dplyr6
react5
charts4
data-visualization3
javascript3
data-visualizations3
visualizations3
sketch3
render2
bower2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ritchieking/d3-book
Aug 2014 - Feb 2016
Supplementary materials for Visual Storytelling with D3 (plus more D3 goodness)
Contributions:51 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
plusstorytellingvisualization
ritchieking/ritchieking.github.io
Oct 2013 - Feb 2022
Contributions:46 commits, 20 pushes in 8 years 6 months
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