Sinduja Rangarajan
Head Of Data Storytelling
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSinduja Rangarajan is a Head of Data Storytelling and investigative data journalist with 11+ years of experience transforming complex datasets into narratives that drive policy change and public accountability. She combines a computer science foundation with advanced data skills (Python, SQL, Excel, OpenRefine) and newsroom rigor developed at Bloomberg, Mother Jones, and Reveal to lead cross-disciplinary teams and mentor reporters in data-first investigations. Her work has catalyzed government data releases, influenced legislative debate, and earned top honors including a Pulitzer finalist nod and multiple Loeb and Overseas Press Club citations. At startups and agencies she builds data storytelling practices and products—tripling engagement for a newsletter and creating public-facing tools like insurance price estimators—showing she can scale investigative rigor into commercial and design contexts. Colleagues rely on her for methodological inventiveness, from scraping and parsing millions of PDFs to piloting agentic LLMs for data extraction, blending investigative tenacity with product-minded execution.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Journalism, Master of Arts (MA) Journalism at University of Southern CaliforniaPGDM Communications, PGDM Communications at Mudra Institue of Communications, AhmedabadBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at University of Mumbai
English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish
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Github Skills (5)
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journalism3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cirlabs/Silicon-Valley-Diversity-Data
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 9 months
cynduja/handbook-academia-journalism-collaborations
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
The handbook for best practices, do and don'ts for academia-journalism-research partnerships and collaborations to push the boundaries of investigative journalism
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
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