Since we last posted our team introductions back in January, there have been quite a few changes and we wanted to take a moment to reintroduce ourselves to our wonderful Aleph Discourse community!
Earlier this year, OCCRP was unfortunately impacted by the revocation of USAID and U.S. government funding, which led to some difficult but necessary staffing and capacity changes. We had to downsize the organisation by about 20%, and the rest of our staff moved to a temporary 4-day week while we worked on securing other funding sources.. Despite these challenges, our commitment to supporting the anti-corruption and anti-organized crime investigative journalism ecosystem has never wavered.
We’re proud to share that on April 4th, we announced our work on the upcoming Aleph Pro, marking a major milestone in the evolution of our data platform! You can read the announcement here. We also shared it right here on Discourse.
With all that said, we’d love for you to meet the current team working on the development of Aleph Pro:
- Samir (@samir.gondzo), joining us from Bosnia and Herzegovina, is our Aleph Pro Tech Lead.
- Chris (@stchris), who is working with OCCRP from Germany, is our Aleph Tech Lead.
- Till (@tillprochaska), also based in Germany and is our Frontend Developer.
- Edin (@edinn), joining us from Bosnia and Herzegovina, is our Solution Architect.
- Mehdi (@gretlambdar), working between Brazil and France, is our Data Pipeline Lead.
- Jen (@jen), our Senior Investigative Data Developer.
- Klil, based in the United States, is Tech Lead on a parallel data project.
- Eric (@brrttwrks), our Data Director.
- Mark (@mnightingale), based in Germany, is our Chief Product Officer.
- And special thanks to Martyna, Pujan and Sid – the OCCRP Platforms Team.
And hi, I’m Ezana, Product Manager for Data Platforms here at OCCRP, based in the United States! 
We’re excited for what’s ahead and look forward to continuing to build and grow alongside all of you. Thank you for being part of this community! We’ll be posting updates very soon!
Looking forward to sharing more cool developments and getting feedback from everyone as we wrap up our work on Aleph Pro!
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