Helped develop the new redesign of The Verge site and Duet, Vox Media's new publishing platform. A platform with the goal of supporting all of Vox Media's publications.
An open-source game inspired by the famous game Wordle. Purpose of the game is to guess the word (based on Bad Bunny lyrics) in 6 tries and includes a link to the Spotify song the word appears in to help in figuring out the word of the day.
Auto generate lyrics powered by an AI (Artifical Intelligence) trained on Bad Bunny songs. This experiment uses TensorFlow.js with a model exported from the Python version of Tensorflow. Only 134 Bad Bunny songs were used to train the model. I need more Bad Bunny songs. This is a work in progress.
An open-source starter blog template that is statically generated with Next.js, content powered by Notion and styled with Tailwind CSS.
A Node, React and Next.js based template that powers all of the custom interactive projects at The Washington Post.
A three-part investigation series on law enforcement's failure to catch the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.
A six-part interactive series on the obstruction investigation with audio and scrolling animations.
Inteactive story about displaced villages and a ruined ecosystem with audio narration from the reporter.
A reconstruction of the movements of two D.C. Army National Guard helicopters that parked nearly still in the air over protesters, using flight-tracking data, images and videos.
An interactive project that zooms and pans to show who attended a possible superspreader event at the White House.
Hola! My name is Lucio and I recently made the switch from the newsroom to product and now work as a Senior Software Engineer at The Washington Post.
Previously at Vox Media, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune's Spanish daily (Hoy Chicago) respectively and The Chicago Reporter.
During my time in San Francisco I helped instruct a class on editorial web design and development in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Outside of work, I was listed in Editor & Publisher's 2019 “25 Under 35: The Future Generation of Newspaper Leaders” and Fullstack Academy's “15 Developers to Follow If You Want to Work in Media.” I cofounded Code Latino Chicago, a community empowering Latinos into web development. A contributor of Next.js (v9.4.3), an open-source React Framework .
A Lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) and previously served on the local chapter boards in DC, Bay Area and Chicago.
I'm originally from Compton, CA and graduated from Cal State Fullerton (Go Titans!) with a Bachelor's Degree in Photo Communications.
- SND: Bronze Medal (Story Page Design)
- SND: Award of Excellence (Use of Original/Commissioned Illustrations)
- SND: Award of Excellence (Use of Video)
- SND: Award of Excellence (Use of Video)
- SND: Award of Excellence (Use of Audio in Digital Storytelling)
- SND: Award of Excellence (Line of Coverage: Long-form Series)
- SND: Best in Show
- Malofiej: Gold Medal in Innovative Format
- SND: Award of Excellence (Story Page Design – Public Interest/Editor's Choice)
- SND: Bronze Medal (Line of Coverage – Mueller Report/Impeachment)
- SND: Award of Excellence – Individual Portfolio
- SND: Bronze Medal – Organization Portfolio
- Scripps Howard Awards: Innovation – Finalist
- ONA: Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling – Finalist
- ONA: Features – Finalist
- ONA: Breaking News
- Editor & Pubblisher: 25 Under 35
- Fullstack Academy: 15 Developers to Follow If You Want to Work in Media