Thomas Wilburn
Senior Data Editor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Wilburn is a Senior Data Editor with 13 years of experience blending journalism, data analysis, and web engineering to produce small-batch, high-impact reporting for Chalkbeat. He leads a compact team that handles public records requests, builds newsroom tools, and crafts data visualizations and interactive narratives, drawing on prior senior roles at NPR and The Seattle Times. A hands-on developer and trainer, he has built widely used newsroom tooling and the Caret text editor for ChromeOS, and supervised national election results deployments. He pairs newsroom curiosity with practical engineering—from embedded in-game UIs at ArenaNet to responsive web apps—and enjoys making complicated datasets tell clear stories. Based in Chicago, he’s a frequent speaker at industry events and is known for a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach (and an affection for dogs, sandwiches, and lists of three).
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Communication, BA, Communication at George Mason University
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (132)
visuals10
tabletop10
sublime-text10
width10
text-editor10
textmate10
height10
npr10
sublime10
chrome-extension10
iframe10
chrome10
javascript9
spreadsheet9
feed9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
seattletimes/pullquote
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
thomaswilburn/Caret
Aug 2013 - Mar 2022
A sublime text editor for Chrome OS
Contributions:872 commits, 81 PRs, 235 pushes in 8 years 8 months
chrome-ostextmatechromesublimesublime-text-3
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