Rylie Johnson
Software Architect at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolRylie Johnson is a Software Architect with 8 years of experience building resilient data pipelines, back-end scrapers, and user-facing tooling across news, civic data, and marketing domains. Based in Minneapolis, Rylie currently architects systems at the Minnesota Star Tribune after leading data quality and engineering teams at Plural, where they reduced remediation effort by 70% through internal tooling and mentored junior engineers. A long-time maintainer on the openstates project, Rylie has deep expertise in Python scraping and parsing of legislative data, adapting quickly to diverse website structures and evolving sources. Their background spans full-stack development, DevOps patterns, and content optimization—rooted in a Udacity Grow with Google scholarship in front-end web development and a Full Stack boot camp. Colleagues rely on Rylie for clear documentation and fast code reviews that unblock releases, and they pair an engineer’s rigor with a marketer’s eye for clarity from earlier content roles. Notably, Rylie blends public-sector data stewardship with newsroom engineering, making them adept at turning messy, heterogeneous sources into reliable, production-ready datasets.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Development Boot Camp, Full Stack Development Boot Camp at University of Minnesota College of Continuing & Professional Studies2018 Google Developer Challenge Scholarship Winner Front-end Web Development, 2018 Google Developer Challenge Scholarship Winner Front-end Web Development at UdacityBachelor’s Degree Professional Communications and Emerging Media, Bachelor’s Degree Professional Communications and Emerging Media at University of Wisconsin-Stout
English, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (13)
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scrapy10
data-parsing10
python10
webscraper10
webscraping10
data-scraping10
screen-scraping10
web-development8
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e-government8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openstates/openstates-scrapers
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
source for Open States scrapers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:157 reviews, 564 commits, 782 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rylie primarily contributed to the development of Python scrapers, focusing on fetching and processing data from various government websites. The commits involve updating version information, fixing paths, and implementing features for parsing bill information, including versions, sponsors, votes, and actions. The contributions demonstrate a focus on data extraction, handling different website structures, and adapting to changes in the target websites.
scraperpythongovernmentscrapers
NewAgeAirbender/people
Jun 2021 - Sep 2024
Curated information on all state legislators & governors.
Contributions:710 pushes, 58 branches in 3 years 3 months
legislatorsgovernorszoneszmodem
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