President Obama’s re-election campaign 🔗

I was the Deputy Director of Technology at the Democratic National Committee during the 2012 presidential campaign. I oversaw our software engineering efforts and worked to help re-elect President Obama and put Democrats into office across the country. We collaborated closely with the Obama For America 2012 campaign in Chicago, providing technical assistance, institutional knowledge, and developing our own suite of software packages. These were mainly focussed on volunteer and voter engagement, and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts. For example, I led the development of the party’s polling place locator (seen at right), which also powered the Obama campaign’s polling place lookup tool, and handled millions of requests from voters during the GOTV weekend leading up to Election Day 2012. I also created the Digital Slate Card, which gave voters a list of the endorsed Democratic candidates that would be on the ballot where they were registered to vote.

I also led efforts to open up more of the source code of the software generated by the party. During the height of the campaign, we released an open source online voter registration application.