Nayomi.

About

Background & Experience

I'm an award-winning Frontend & Design Engineer based in Washington, D.C., specializing in designing and building polished, interactive web applications across data visualization, mapping, interactive storytelling, and product experiences.

Work Experience

Frontend Engineer | Interactive Applications

McKinsey & Company · 2022 – 2026

  • Conceptualized, prototyped, designed, and developed production-grade interactive web applications using React, D3, Mapbox GL, and modern front-end technologies
  • Partnered with designers, editors, and subject matter experts to translate product concepts and complex datasets into intuitive, accessible user experiences from concept through production
  • Built reusable, high-performance React components and interactive visualizations that transformed editorial briefs into compelling digital experiences

Senior Data Journalist, Product Data Science

Sony PlayStation · 2020 – 2022

  • Produce dashboards, predictive analyses, and data-driven narratives for Product, Marketing, and executive decision-making
  • Collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to develop predictive and customer segmentation models
  • Design and develop interactive prototypes and custom visualization tools as alternatives to traditional BI platforms
  • Create decision-support applications and visual narratives to validate machine learning model outputs

Content Manager

Visme · 2015 – 2019

  • Led content strategy for Visme, an online data visualization platform
  • Developed interactive web experiences and data visualizations using Python, D3.js, and JavaScript to communicate complex information through engaging digital storytelling
  • Published visualizations featured by Microsoft Educator Center, Business Insider, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, Metro.co.uk, and United Press International
  • Increased monthly website traffic from 50,000 to over 1 million visitors

Honors & Awards

Webby Awards logo

Webby Award Honoree: Best Data Visualization

Webby Awards · Mar 2026

Mapping the US affordable housing crisis

Anthem Awards logo

Anthem Awards: DEI & Belonging — Best Use of Data (Awareness)

Anthem Awards · Nov 2025

Mapping the US affordable housing crisis

McKinsey & Company logo

McKinsey Gluck Award: Best Article with Innovative Knowledge Delivery

McKinsey & Company · Nov 2024

Bridging the women's health gap: A country-level exploration

Education

M.S., Statistics

Texas A&M University

2021 – 2022

M.A., Journalism and Media

University of Hamburg, Germany · Aarhus University, Denmark

2012 – 2014

Technical Training

Full-Stack Data Science

Bloom Institute of Technology

2019 – 2020

Python · SQL · Machine Learning · Full-Stack Software Engineering

Frontend Web Development

General Assembly

2018

HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Responsive UI Development

Skills & Tools

Frontend

ReactJavaScript (ES6+)HTML5 / CSS3D3.jsThree.jsReact Three FiberMapbox GL JSHTML5 Canvas

Backend & Data

PythonSQLFlaskPandasNumPyPySparkSpark SQL

Design & Visualization

FigmaBlender

Tools & Platforms

GitAWS