David Broska
Teaching Assistant at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Broska is a sociologist and empirical methods specialist with nine years of research and data experience, currently a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant at Stanford University. He blends rigorous social science training from LSE and Zeppelin University with practical programming and data-engineering skills developed through roles at the European Commission and data analytics positions. At Stanford he supports courses on regression for discrete outcomes and economic sociology, translating advanced methods into classroom-ready instruction and reproducible analyses. His background includes hands-on work with R, MySQL, SAP, and alternative data source evaluation, reflecting a comfort bridging qualitative insight and quantitative pipelines. Based in Palo Alto, he brings an uncommon mix of classroom pedagogy, large-institution data work, and methodological research—well-suited to projects that require both statistical rigor and pragmatic data engineering.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political ScienceBA, Sociology, Politics & Economics, BA, Sociology, Politics & Economics at Zeppelin University, FriedrichshafenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology at Stanford University
French, English, German
Github Skills (6)
tidyverse7
tsne7
tidy7
dplyr5
quanteda5
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
davidbroska/Computational-Political-Science
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:111 commits, 110 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
davidbroska/website
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.