ProPublica announced the hiring of Jesse Browning to its product team as an engineer focusing on data integrations.

Browning joins us from The Beans, a software startup that builds financial planning tools and services for educators, health care professionals and others, where they’ve led technology since 2019. As both a team lead and an individual contributor, Browning has built secure machine-learning pipelines and managed cross-functional teams, as well as working across devops, IT security and product development. Prior to that, they worked at startups like Atrium and Tetra.

“We’re beyond excited to have Jesse join the Product team,” said Ben Werdmuller, senior director of technology for ProPublica. “Building responsible data platforms to allow our teams to get answers and derive insights that weren’t previously possible is an extremely exciting project. Jesse brings a wealth of leadership and technical experience that will help support this work and help teams across the organization.”

“I could not be more excited to join the team at ProPublica,” Browning said. “I look forward to putting my experience building data systems to work in service of such an important mission.”