BuzzFeed

Worked on the Tasty team developing APIs and other services ecosystem to power the Tasty iOS apps and tasty.co properties. Also worked on the distributed platform data team coallescing analytics from various sources to power internal analytics tools for editorial teams and other stakeholders.

What did I do?

Tons of stuff. I worked on two teams during my time at BuzzFeed. A Distributed Platform team charged with handling statistics for posts across the numerous platforms and accounts to and with which BuzzFeed posts. I also worked on the Tasty team on the numerous backend components which powered the Tasty iOS application and the tasty.co site.

I learned tons of asynchronous python with tornado and asyncio. We really pushed the boundaries here using python for some high-throughput data-intensive applications. I also did a fair amount of react doing some of the initial work on El Dashboard, an internal tool which agglomerates data from numerous data sources in one place with the goal of being a good point of entry for editors, producers, and stakeholders to see how their content is performing.

One of my favorite projects was actually setting up the sitemaps infrastructure for BuzzFeed.com. This was a great excercise in SEO and ontologies since we had to extract tags, titles, and so on to provide the best sitemap to the internet overlords.

Technologies

• python
  • django
  • tornado
  • asyncio
• react
• docker
• nginx