whoami

I’m Jake Kara. I’m a software engineer at The Washington Post, where I work on reporting tools that support award-winning journalism.

Before that I worked at Yale University Library, in both the Digital Humanities Lab and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimony.

I earned my master’s degree in software engineering from Harvard Extension School. I completed my Software Engineering graduate certificate. My thesis was on extending Jupyter Notebooks with a syntax for cell-level metadata, called Margo Notes.

Before I started working at Yale, I was a data editor at CTMirror.org and its data site TrendCT.org. Before that, I was a plain-old editor, running a newspaper. Before that, I was a reporter, and before that I studied professional writing in college.

Fediverse

• Find me on Mastodon at @jakek@twit.social.
• You can find this website itself on the Fediverse because I’m working on implementing ActivityPub features, sort of. So far I only have tested it out on Mastodon. Copy and paste @jakekara@jakekara.com into the search in your Fediverse client and click follow. It might take a little while for the Follow to be accepted because I have to do it manually for now. Some of the code I wrote when hacking around with this is here.