Brandon Kopp
Director, Data Science Research Center
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Kopp is a director and research-focused data scientist with over a decade of experience applying social psychology and qualitative methods to improve large-scale survey operations at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He designs and operationalizes data science solutions—R Shiny monitoring dashboards, ML-based text extraction from PDFs, email clustering, and paradata pipelines—that translate research insights into production-ready workflows and governance. Brandon coordinates cross-office projects, leads a growing data science training program and internship pipeline, and helped establish agency-wide GitLab-based version control, a now-standard production tool at BLS. His background as a research psychologist and Army National Guard leader gives him a rare blend of rigorous experimental design, people management, and mission-oriented systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Griggs County Central High SchoolB.S., Psychology, Sociology, B.S., Psychology, Sociology at North Dakota State UniversityM.A., Social Psychology, M.A., Social Psychology at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (22)
local-database8
api-blueprint7
discord-py6
dredd6
api6
django-rest-framework6
pytest6
django6
discord6
restful-api5
markdown4
docker4
rest4
elasticsearch4
database4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
brandonkopp/MoCo-Crime-Explorer
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
brandonkopp/RPS
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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