Vincent Van Buskirk
Founding Engineer at Deeptune
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Van Buskirk is a founding engineer with 9 years of experience building data-driven products and news delivery systems, currently shaping Deeptune after founding engineering roles at Pledge Health and earlier stints at The New York Times and PayPal. He combines backend API expertise—demonstrated by work integrating NYT COVID/flu data into a documented, cached API—with product-minded engineering for high-impact consumer and enterprise experiences. Trained in data journalism and AI at Columbia, he bridges computational reporting and scalable engineering to turn messy real-world datasets into reliable services. Based in New York, he brings startup grit and newsroom discipline to systems that prioritize accuracy, performance, and clear data provenance.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics and History, Bachelor's degree Economics and History at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS Data Journalism, Master of Science - MS Data Journalism at Columbia University - Graduate School of JournalismGraduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (25)
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javascript10
expressjs10
corona10
apidoc10
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api-design10
restful-api10
fetcher10
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nodejs10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
disease-sh/API
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Vincent implemented and refactored an API for COVID-19 and Influenza data. Their work involved integrating data from the New York Times (NYT) and exposing it through new API endpoints. They also added functionality for retrieving data based on states and counties, including handling for missing data. The user updated the API documentation, improved code linting, and added caching mechanisms to optimize data retrieval.
apicasesredisdiscorddiscord-server
infamousfrogs/infamousfrogs
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:57 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
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