Tristan Lee
Journalist Co-founder at Decoherence Media
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Lee is a journalist and co-founder with a decade of experience applying open-source data and data-science techniques to investigate authoritarian and far-right networks. After training as an applied physicist (MS, University of Oregon) and working in optics and applied physics, he pivoted to investigative data work at Bellingcat where he blended technical rigor with open-source investigation. He now leads Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit that uses reproducible, data-driven methods to expose anti-democratic movements. Based in Austin, Tristan combines laboratory‑grade attention to measurement with journalistic storytelling, making complex networks and evidence accessible to the public. An interdisciplinary thinker, he brings experimental scientific habits to investigative reporting and nonprofit leadership.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Physics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Physics at University of OregonBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Western Washington University
Github Skills (30)
python10
scraper10
tiktok-api10
api10
trending10
social-media10
cli10
mls9
tiktok9
yt-dlp9
youtube-dl9
command-line9
audio9
newsapi8
social-network-analysis8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bellingcat/snscrape
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
A social networking service scraper in Python
Contributions:30 commits, 9 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 months
networkingpythonscrapercommand-lineopen-source-research
bellingcat/polyphemus
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Scraper for Odysee: alt-tech platform for sharing video
Contributions:26 commits, 1 comment in 6 months
scraperodyseeopen-source-researchpythonvideo
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