Thomas Brawner
Staff Data Scientist
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Brawner is a Staff Data Scientist in Kansas City with 11 years of experience bridging social science research and applied data science in sectors from child trauma research to clean energy. He holds a PhD in Political Science and has translated rigorous academic methods into production analytics and modeling roles at startups and institutions including Equilibrium Energy, TeraCrunch, and Harvard. Thomas combines expertise in research design, biostatistics, and energy analytics to turn complex behavioral and operational datasets into actionable insights for product and policy decisions. He retains an active research footprint—serving as a research statistician at ChildTrauma Academy and previously lecturing on data methods—bringing both methodological rigor and practical mentorship to teams. Notably, his career path shows a consistent theme of moving scholarly techniques into real-world impact, particularly in energy transition and human-centered outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Political Science, Bachelor's Degree, Political Science at Georgetown CollegeMaster's Degree, International Relations, Master's Degree, International Relations at American UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science at Penn State University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (6)
r-package10
espn9
differential-privacy8
exploratory8
exploratory-data-analysis7
data-analysis5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thomasbrawner/regime_failure
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 PRs, 149 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 3 months
privacytoolsproject/PSI-Library
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
R library of differentially private algorithms for exploratory data analysis
Contributions:258 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 10 months
r-packagedata-analysisexploratorydifferential-privacydifferentially-private
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