Tomer Ovadia
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTomer Ovadia is a software engineer in New York with 10 years of experience building products at the intersection of journalism and technology, currently working on News on Search and News Intelligence & Ranking at Google. He founded Voter Help Line, a production-grade texting platform adopted by campaigns and organizations in the 2020–2022 election cycle that engaged 15k+ voters and was built end-to-end before attracting partner engineering contributions. Earlier roles at POLITICO blended data analytics, ML forecasting, and product strategy to drive editorial and revenue decisions and to manage large-scale dashboards and billion-row schemas. Tomer pairs hands-on full‑stack development (D3, JavaScript, SQL) with newsroom instincts from years as an editor and reporter, enabling him to translate editorial needs into measurable product outcomes. He holds formal training in web development (App Academy, General Assembly) and was a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard, reflecting a rare mix of newsroom credibility and production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration at University of California, BerkeleyNorth Hollywood High SchoolFull-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at App AcademyFront-End Web Development, Front-End Web Development at General AssemblyKnight Visiting Nieman Fellowship, Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Hebrew
Github Skills (8)
router10
react9
voting9
effector8
declarative8
javascript4
js4
web-development3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tomerovadia/GoogleUnfilteredSearch
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:103 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
tomerovadia/Airbnfarm
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:448 commits, 91 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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