Andrew Akhlaghi
Forward Deployed Engineer at Sayari
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Akhlaghi is a Forward Deployed Engineer and data scientist with eight years of experience applying computational text analysis, OCR-driven machine translation, and data engineering to real-world intelligence, academic, and campaign problems. He combines a PhD in history with operational experience as a US Army officer and company intelligence lead, bringing rare domain expertise in Persian, Azerbaijani, Russian, and Spanish to complex open-source and proprietary data projects. At Sayari and UT Austin he has delivered topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and large-scale dataset integration using Python, SQL, and Bash, and he’s adept at extracting insights from messy multilingual sources via APIs and web scraping. A proven supervisor in both academic and military settings, he pairs rigorous research training with pragmatic, production-focused tooling to turn noisy data into actionable analysis.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, HISTORY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, HISTORY at The University of Texas at AustinJohns Hopkins UniversityMaster's degree, Area Studies, Master's degree, Area Studies at University of Oklahoma
Persian, Spanish, Azerbaijani
Github Skills (29)
historian10
digital-humanities10
python10
network-analysis10
linked-open-data10
open-source10
website-hosting10
data-management10
ckan10
api10
hosting10
text-analysis9
hocr8
optical-character-recognition7
computer-vision6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akhlaghiandrew/Understanding_History_Digital_Techniques
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
akhlaghiandrew/Data_History
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:88 commits, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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