About Jeremy Ashkenas
Born 2000. Jeremy Ashkenas is an American engineer, software developer and computer scientist, known for Backbone.js, CoffeeScript and DocumentCloud.
Jeremy Ashkenas is a computer programmer known for the creation and co-creation of the CoffeeScript and LiveScript programming languages respectively, the Backbone.js JavaScript framework and the Underscore.js JavaScript library. While working in the graphics department at The New York Times, he shared the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for Images/Graphics/Interactives. After working at the Times, he was an employee of Observable, Inc. As of 2020, he works at Substack Inc. Jeremy returned to The New York Times in June 2022 as Director of Graphics for Opinion.
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Computer programmer
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Jeremy Ashkenas was born in 2000.
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Jeremy Ashkenas is an engineer, software developer and computer scientist.
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Jeremy Ashkenas is known for Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, DocumentCloud and Underscore.js.
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