About

My name is Austin Wilkins. I love getting very serious about unimportant things, and taking a depth-first approach to problems.

Experience

Academically, I hold a bachelors degree in Political Science and accidentally picked up a Masters in Business Analysis. Along the way I managed to pick up a few co-authorships from professors who needed help accessing and processing data for their research.

After university I worked with ProQuest, an academic data company, as an in-house Text and Data Mining consultant. This involved supporting researchers to text mine large batches of licensed news documents, giving workshops on text mining techniques, and working with university libraries across the world to help them better support their researchers.

The next few years were spent working with the Jail Data Initiative, a project born of New York University's Public Safety Lab, managing their data pipeline and infrastructure. This served as a crash course in handling the many aspects of a living system.

Recently I started Triforged to share client-work with a few fellow freelancers.

Random bits of code are on github, but I'm mostly saving code off of Github these days.