Allan Vestal
Senior Data Visualization Specialist
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllan Vestal is a Senior Data Visualization Specialist with 15 years of experience turning complex political and investigative data into clear, audience-focused visual stories across major newsrooms. He has led newsroom-wide tooling and workflow transformations—most recently building sustainable data storytelling infrastructure at the Baltimore Banner and rolling out Datawrapper and reusable graphics systems that empower nontechnical editors. At Bloomberg and POLITICO he coordinated cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance election tools, real-time results pipelines, and advanced geospatial analyses for redistricting coverage. Technically fluent in newsroom engineering stacks and statistical analysis, he pairs hands-on development with training and documentation to scale visual journalism. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he blends journalism, code and data—and quietly, he often builds the small internal tools and editor-friendly text systems that make big visual projects repeatable.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Github Skills (50)
yeoman10
bootstrap9
bootstrap-theme9
css9
homebrew9
uikit8
html8
django8
javascript8
home-assistant8
home-assistant-integration8
yeoman-generator8
dmn7
material-design7
python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
datahub/grappelli-nested-inlines
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Moved: Nested inlines for Django Grappelli
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
django
DallasMorningNews/generator-dmninteractives
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Yeoman generator for DMN-flavored "interactive" pages
Contributions:1 release, 152 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 10 months
dmnyeoman-generatoryeoman
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