Paul Brewer
Owner at Economic and Financial Technology Consulting LLC
Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Brewer is a Ph.D. economist and founder of Economic and Financial Technology Consulting LLC with over a decade of experience building prototype solutions at the intersection of e-commerce, auctions, and financial technology. He has combined academic rigor—from faculty roles at HKUST and Georgia State and human-subject experimental research—with hands-on R&D and product work for startups and firms in Internet advertising, mortgage innovation (co-inventor on a mortgage patent), and web-based market labs. Known for translating complex, open-ended problems into practical prototypes, he is proficient in Bayesian and classical data analysis (R, spreadsheets, custom apps), data engineering, and Linux/web prototyping. Based in Tennessee, he now focuses on short-term consulting engagements that leverage his uncommon blend of experimental economics, market design, and applied software architecture.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Economics, Ph.D., Economics at California Institute of TechnologyBaylor High SchoolContinuous Education
Stackoverflow
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449answers
28questions
unix
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ftp
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ubuntu
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javascript
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pyspark
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google-bigquery
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Github Skills (200)
docker-run10
notebook10
python10
ipython10
economics10
refresh10
tabular10
compression10
google-drive-api10
cumulative-distribution-function10
simulations10
zip10
jupyter10
csv-parser10
jupyter-notebook10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DrPaulBrewer/yarra
Apr 2017 - Mar 2025
Yet Another Robotic Research Assistant (for processing economic simulations)
Contributions:10 PRs, 17 pushes, 13 branches in 8 years
roboticseconomicagent-based-modelingassistantsimulations
DrPaulBrewer/multicoresql
May 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:121 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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