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Luigi Ray-Montañez

  • Former Director of Engineering, Code for America

Luigi has been a proud civic hacker since 2008, when he published an open-source Ruby gem for an early open government API from Sunlight Labs. He then joined the Sunlight Foundation in 2009, working on government transparency and open data projects. Luigi helped start the media company Upworthy in 2012 and went on to work for Vox Media in 2016, before joining Code for America in 2017. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.