Aaron Ritchey

Productivity Engineer

Experience: Tacoma News Tribune

Designed and implemented customer-facing web applications that generated ad revenue, along with internal tools that automated manual workflows and boosted team efficiency. In the first week of a 10-week internship, delivered an interactive Google Map that directly led to an internship extension and a path to full-time employment. Continued to expand and enhance application features, with the most impactful being a content management tool that streamlined operations for a six-person content team.

High School Sports Database

My first large-scale project, single-handedly developing a web application to gather and display high school sports data at the dawn of Web 2.0. Read More »

Text Cleaner Tool

Simplied workflows for colleagues by developing a tool to "clean" text (edit and format content) for the newspaper. I named this tool myself. 😁 Read More »

Google Maps Optimizations

Developed cutting-edge features for Google Maps, including embeddable maps and marker display optimization, before Google Maps itself. Read More »