Greg Linch
Data Visuals Director - Editorial
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolGreg Linch is a data-driven newsroom leader and senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building tools and workflows that scale across enterprise newsrooms. As Data + Visuals Director at Informa TechTarget, he leads a team delivering interactive graphics, templates and trend-tracking tools for 35+ business sites while training 120+ journalists in data journalism practices. He combines hands-on Django and AWS engineering—having built CMS features, an internal source database, landing-page tooling with webhook integrations, and election systems—with editorial product instincts to bridge newsroom, design and engineering teams. A former Washington Post data projects editor and adjunct instructor, he brings deep newsroom credibility and a knack for turning complex editorial needs into practical, reusable technical workflows. Notably, he has repeatedly shipped internal platforms (including an open-source Datawrapper deployment and a custom story template system) that improve reporting speed and audience-facing clarity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Western High SchoolCertificate, World Art History, Certificate, World Art History at Smithsonian AssociatesUndergraduate, Majors: Journalism and Political Science; Minor: Spanish, Undergraduate, Majors: Journalism and Political Science; Minor: Spanish at University of MiamiCypress Bay High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
google-oauth10
django9
pdf9
virtualenv9
database9
nginx9
python8
visualization7
bulk-loader6
command-line6
psycopg6
django-admin5
nodejs5
backbonejs5
embeddable5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcclatchy/docpub
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Django app to more easily upload, edit and get embed codes for PDFs
Contributions:271 commits, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
djangodocumentclouddocumentcloud-apigoogle-oauthnginx
mcclatchy/mccelections
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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