Software

Texas Tribune

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As a Full-Stack Engineer at the Texas Tribune between 2022 to 2023, I played a central role in enhancing and maintaining the Tribune's website, content management system and related digital products. In total, I led the architecture, design, and implementation of more than a dozen major features and improvements.

Those contributions include:

• Building more than 20 scrapers and reviewing more than a dozen builds by contract developers.
• Fixing and rebuilding more than 50 scrapers and merging more than 50 PRs related to bug fixes, performance enhancements, and core upgrades.
• Creating internal tools for monitoring scraper outages and devising new internal processes for reporting scraper outages.
• Researching and experimenting with LLM-based scraping solutions to improve the scraping system's long-term viability.
• Improving internal documentation on scraping systems to assist our technical teams and contractors.

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