Anderson Frailey
Assistant Professor Of Economics at Open Research Group, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnderson Frailey is an assistant professor of economics at UMBC and a PhD economist with nine years of experience applying empirical and computational methods to public policy and tax microsimulation. He combines academic research with hands-on open-source software development, contributing to prominent projects like the Tax-Calculator and PolicyEngine US to implement real-world tax rules such as a Fair Share Tax and state-specific Utah calculations. His background includes policy-focused roles at the American Enterprise Institute and consultancy work for the World Bank, giving him practical experience translating research into actionable policy tools. He also contributes data-engineering improvements to pybaseball, demonstrating versatility across domains from tax policy to sports analytics. Based in Baltimore, he blends rigorous economic training from the University of Virginia with a track record of producing reproducible, community-oriented code for policy analysis. Colleagues would note his uncommon mix of deep theoretical training and meticulous back-end coding that closes the loop between models and policy-ready implementations.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at University of Virginia
Github Skills (16)
calculator10
pandas10
apim10
tax10
api10
calculation10
ax10
python10
calc10
data-retrieval10
data-format9
data-analysis9
numpy9
data-modeling9
data-formats9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
USA Federal Individual Income and Payroll Tax Microsimulation Model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:172 commits, 36 PRs, 221 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anderson primarily focused on implementing the "Fair Share Tax" functionality within the `tax-calculator` repository. Their contributions involved adding, modifying, and correcting the code for the `BuffettRule` function, which was subsequently renamed to `FairShareTax`. This included integrating the new tax calculation into the core calculation logic and making several revisions to address PEP8 formatting issues and function logic. These updates directly impacted the tax calculation process, specifically the inclusion of a new tax.
individualpayrollpythonlawpsl-cataloged
jldbc/pybaseball
May 2018 - Dec 2020
Pull current and historical baseball statistics using Python (Statcast, Baseball Reference, FanGraphs)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anderson contributed to the `pybaseball` repository by implementing features related to retrieving baseball statistics from various sources, specifically focusing on Statcast data. Their work involved splitting large Statcast queries to avoid timeouts and refactoring code for better organization and maintainability. They also added support for Retrosheet data by integrating game logs and related functionalities. These changes improved the data retrieval process and expanded the repository's data offerings.
pythonstatisticsbaseballsabermetricsdata
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