Jeremy Bowers
Chief Technology Officer at POLITICO
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeremy Bowers is a seasoned technology leader and CTO overseeing POLITICO's globally distributed technology organization. With 14 years of newsroom-focused engineering leadership, he has guided large teams—from The Washington Post's 65 engineers to building the NYT's live election infrastructure. He combines hands-on software craft with strategic product sense, evidenced by open-source work on NPR Apps, including refactoring pym.js to remove jQuery and modularize iframe handling. His career spans NPR, NYT, WaPo, and Tampa Bay Times, reflecting a consistent pattern of aligning editorial objectives with scalable, production-grade systems. Based in Washington, DC, he steers technology at POLITICO toward robust architectures and developer-friendly deployment tooling that serve a global newsroom.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
python10
configuration-management10
responsive-design10
flask-ask10
javascripts10
html10
fabric10
flask10
deploying9
css8
github-action-workflow7
github-ci7
github-actions-workflows7
github-actions-workflow7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nprapps/app-template
Dec 2012 - May 2014
The NPR visuals team's opinionated project template for client-side apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:107 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy contributed to various aspects of the application template, including fixing a gzip encoding bug and adding features for auto-generating configuration files. They refactored the deployment process and added server configuration capabilities. Further commits show the user implemented the comments section and dynamic page.
nprreactclient-sidejavascripttypescript
nprapps/pym.js
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Resize an iframe responsively depending on the height of its content and the width of its container.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `pym.js` library, which resizes iframes responsively. They removed jQuery dependencies, refactored the code into separate parent and child components, and updated the examples to work with the new API. The user also addressed issues related to multiple iframes on a single page and added features for handling different URL parameters.
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