About Me

Hola! My name is Lucio Villa and I am not your typical software engineer. With a background in photojournalism and experience building websites (ask me about my high school web design competition days!) I learned that I can combine my skills in web development in the world of journalism when The New York Times published their multimedia interactive project called Snow Fall back in 2012.

Now currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at The Washington Post where I help build and maintain the media players.

Previously worked at Vox Media, The Washington Post (I left and cameback), San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune where I had built, designed and maintained frontend platforms at each organization. Throughout my career using technologies like PHP/Wordpress, Python/Django, Grunt.js, Node.js, Gatsby, Next.js, React and TypeScript to name a few.

Outside of work:

• A contributor of Next.js, an open-source web development React framework.
• Helped instruct a class on editorial web design and development in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Listed in Editor & Publisher's 2019 “25 Under 35: The Future Generation of Newspaper Leaders
• Fullstack Academy's “15 Developers to Follow If You Want to Work in Media.
• Co-founded Code Latino Chicago a community empowering Latinos into web development.
• 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.