Summary
John Brindel is a Machine Learning Engineer and data leader with 11 years of experience building analytics, ML, and data engineering solutions that drive mission-driven change. He has led R&D and data engineering teams at the Center for Policing Equity—translating complex social justice needs into dashboards, automated reporting tools, AI-enhanced ingestion pipelines, and a unified police-data database—while managing cross-functional delivery from ideation through sign-off. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and program management, he has a track record of saving operational time via automation and improving data quality across public-sector and corporate settings. Based in Minneapolis, he also consults on ML and data engineering projects and brings an economist’s rigor (MSc, Universiteit Utrecht) plus multilingual insight from Russian studies to inform thoughtful, stakeholder-centered analytics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Russian Language and Culture, Certificate, Russian Language and Culture at Санкт Петербургский Государственный Университет
BA, Government; Russian Language, 3.94, BA, Government; Russian Language, 3.94 at The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Science (MSc), Economics, Master of Science (MSc), Economics at Universiteit Utrecht
English, Russian, Dutch, German, Turkish