Leo Ji

Software Engineer

Objective

Software engineer and web developer focusing on journalism and creative news media technologies.

Experience

June 2020 – present

Software Engineer

The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com

Developed multiple customer products, including plugins and extensions to Zeus.js; built customer admin console in React and AWS CloudFormation; improved deployment and code coverage reporting processes in Jenkins and AWS CodeBuild; architectured an advanced large-scale API orchestra tool in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, AWS SDK and AWS CDK

Sept 2018 – Dec 2018

News Designer

The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com
collaborated with reporters, assignment, photo, video and project editors to design feature stories for website and print; debugged and patched internal swig, yaml tools for article creation; designed special feature stories in Apple News Format for Apple News

June 2018 – Aug 2018

New Media Intern

The Chicago Sun‑Times
chicago.suntimes.com
launched new recommended events listing targeting low-income, young readers; developed new online practices to serve audience, e.g., coloring L line names with official CTA colors; analyzed web traffic, readership data to infer and target reader needs

Education

Sept. 2015 - March 2019

B.S. Journalism
Northwestern University

Skills

  • TypeScript, JavaScript
  • React
  • AWS, including:
    • SDK
    • CDK
    • CodeBuild
    • CodePipeline
    • CloudFormation

Interests

  • Photography
  • Baking
  • Feeding and petting my cat Troy when he lets me

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