Sherman Hewitt is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently building newsroom-facing systems at The New York Times from internship to senior staff. He combines front-end polish and back-end integration—evidenced by contributions to the NYTimes/library project where he implemented a custom byline feature, history tracking, and richer document linkages—to improve editorial tooling and reader-facing workflows. Grounded in a Computer Science education from the University of Miami and earlier newsroom roles, Sherman brings a rare blend of journalism-first product sense and disciplined engineering. He’s comfortable shipping production-critical features in high-visibility media environments and has a track record of turning editorial needs into robust, user-focused software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Miami
A collaborative documentation site, powered by Google Docs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:51 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sherman primarily contributed to front-end and back-end development within the repository. They implemented a custom byline feature, integrating it into the document processing and category routes. Further contributions included adding links to related resources and refining UI elements, while also enhancing the user interface by including a history of viewed pages.
A clicker game with a twist: instead of infinitely counting up, you're trying to count down as fast as possible!
Contributions:13 PRs, 48 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
gamecount-tojavascripttwistclicker
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Sherman Hewitt - Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times