“Meeting …” is an ongoing series that features colleagues from different corners of The New York Times Company. The technology behind The Times is driven by the contributions of different technologists across the organization. For Black History Month, we are highlighting a few of our Black colleagues who have helped…

How New York Times Engineering fortified our systems ahead of the 2020 presidential election. — By Alexandra Shaheen, Megan Araula and Shawn Bower This is part two of an ongoing series about how The Times’s is working to improve the resilience of its systems. Read part one here. Over the past few years, New York Times Engineering has been asking a simple question — what…

How the New York Times Engineering team built an application catalog to keep track of our software systems. — By Thilak Subramanian and Shesh Patel When The New York Times first joined the world wide web in 1996, there were a handful of engineers who maintained the website and publishing software. The number of applications that fueled The Times’s online presence were limited and easy to keep track of.

“Meeting…” is an ongoing series that features New York Times employees from different corners of the company. — What are your pronouns? She/Her What is your job title and does it mean? My title is Managing Director, User Insights & Strategy. I’m in the Audience Insights Group, and our mission is to help The Times grow by understanding our audience. I currently lead our work for NYT Cooking. I…

A Q&A with The New York Times Live design team. — Last year, The New York Times formed a cross-functional team of editors, product managers, news designers, product designers, engineers and data analysts to innovate and scale live journalism formats. Live consists of blogs, briefings and chats, providing in-depth coverage for a wide variety of news events. …

“Meeting…” is an ongoing series that features New York Times employees from different corners of the company. — What are your pronouns? He/Him What is your job title and does it mean? I am a senior engineering manager for the Data Ad Products team in the Advertising mission. …

A brief history of New York Times Engineering’s ‘election readiness efforts’ to achieve reliable and resilient systems. — By Alexandra Shaheen, Megan Araula and Shawn Bower This is part one of an ongoing series about how The Times’s is working to improve the resilience of its systems. Read part two here. The New York Times experiences traffic levels that ebb and flow with the news cycle. Planned events…

New York Times graphics editors worked with librarians and archivists to piece together a picture of Greenwood before it was burned. The data set and map files are now open source. — By Yuliya Parshina-Kottas and Anjali Singhvi To commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa race massacre, graphics editors at The New York Times analyzed archival maps, city directories, census data, newspaper clippings and survivor accounts to reconstruct Greenwood, a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., that perished at the hands of…

“Meeting…” is an ongoing series that features New York Times employees from different corners of the company. — What are your pronouns? He/Him What is your job title and does it mean? Senior Software Engineer on the UX Foundations Team. We work to ensure that The Times delivers a cohesive cross-platform user experience worthy of our journalism. How long have you been at The Times? Since April, 2019.