Hello!

I’m Aaron Brezel, a Brooklyn-based software engineer and computational journalist.

For three an a half years I worked as a founding member of the Reporting Tools team at The Washington Post. There, I built data pipelines, command line utilities, semantic vector databases, an LLM-powered video forensics tool—whatever would help the newsroom tell its most ambitious data-driven stories.

As of Dec. 2024, I work as the lead software engineer for the Media and Community Lab, an R&D outfit out of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Now, I translate theories around media, social cohesion and democracy into practice as the implementation arm of the lab.

I use this site to catalog my work. If you’re interested in particular pieces, check out my portfolio. For the full journey, check out my resume. My GitHub and LinkedIn are in the footer.

Or, if you just want to chat, shoot me an email. I love to gab.