Benjamin Mainwaring
Quantitative User Researcher
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Mainwaring is a quantitative user researcher and statistician with 11 years of experience translating technical problems into human-centered insights, currently leading research on privacy and security experiences in Messenger at Meta. He specializes in survey methodology and rigorous quantitative approaches, applying them across diverse contexts—from counterextremism research in Iraq to progressive politics in the U.S. and consumer marketing in London. His eclectic, international background and strong academic record (MSc with Distinction, BA summa cum laude) give him a broad perspective on social research and data science. Benjamin combines technical rigor with practical deployment experience, helping teams design actionable measurement that informs product and policy decisions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts with University Honors (Summa Cum Laude), Bachelor of Arts with University Honors (Summa Cum Laude) at American UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) with Distinction, Master of Science (MSc) with Distinction at University of Essex
English, Turkish
Github Skills (17)
weighting10
r-package9
sampling9
crunch9
rake9
apply8
survey8
r7
api7
exploratory6
development-environment5
ide5
statistics4
rstudio4
editor3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mainwaringb/svyweight
Apr 2019 - May 2022
Quickly and flexibly apply rake weighting in R. Expands the interface and adds news features to the `survey` package's weighting functionality.
Contributions:141 commits, 38 PRs, 103 pushes in 3 years 1 month
r-packagerakerstatsapplyweighting
mainwaringb/rcrunch
May 2020 - Aug 2020
R package for interacting with the Crunch API
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
r-packageapicrunch
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