Austin Windsor

Building machine learning, recommender, cloud analytics, and decision systems for real business problems.

About

I am a data scientist and analytics engineer with experience building machine learning, cloud analytics, and decision-support systems across streaming media, healthcare, banking, telecommunications, and supply chain contexts. My work focuses on turning messy operational data into reliable analytics products, ML systems, and business-facing tools.

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Data Scientist & Analytics Engineer

I combine applied machine learning, analytics engineering, AWS infrastructure, and multilingual business context to build systems that help teams make better decisions.

  • Education: M.S. Computer Science, Georgia Tech
  • Focus: ML, analytics engineering, cloud data systems
  • Languages: English, Mandarin, French, Japanese, Spanish

Recent work includes AWS Personalize recommendation systems, QuickSight reporting pipelines, dbt-style analytics modernization, churn and engagement analysis, and data products for international streaming audiences.

Focus Areas

Areas where my work is strongest and most relevant to current data science, analytics engineering, and applied AI roles.

Analytics Engineering

Semantic layers, dbt-style modeling, dashboard lineage, and trusted reporting workflows.

Applied ML

Recommendation systems, churn modeling, clustering, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics.

Cloud Data Systems

AWS pipelines using S3, Lambda, Glue, RDS, SageMaker, Personalize, and QuickSight.

Global Analytics

Multilingual and multi-region analytics across English, Mandarin, French, Japanese, and Spanish contexts.

Selected Projects & Work

Selected professional work and portfolio projects. Public case studies and repositories will be added as portfolio builds are completed.

Causal Pricing Engine for Revenue Optimization

Portfolio project in progress: estimate price elasticity with causal-aware demand modeling, segment customers, and optimize pricing decisions for revenue.

Agentic Multilingual Analytics Layer

Portfolio project in progress: detect metric-definition inconsistencies across multilingual, multi-region datasets and propose human-reviewed fixes.

Streaming Recommendation System

Built AWS-based recommendation workflows using user-item interactions, metadata, filtering logic, and reporting tools for an international streaming platform.

Analytics Modernization & Semantic Layering

Modernizing legacy SQL reporting into clearer, documented, lineage-aware analytics models for subscription, churn, engagement, and product reporting.

Skills

A practical stack spanning machine learning, analytics engineering, data infrastructure, and stakeholder-facing analytics products.

Machine Learning & Analytics

Recommendation systems, A/B testing, churn modeling, causal inference, clustering, anomaly detection, regression, NLP, model evaluation, product analytics.

Programming & Data

Python, SQL, R, Bash, MySQL, PySpark, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, notebook-based analysis, production-oriented data workflows.

Cloud & Analytics Engineering

AWS S3, Lambda, Glue, RDS, SageMaker, Personalize, QuickSight, EventBridge, Step Functions, dbt-style modeling, ETL/ELT, semantic layering.

Communication & Leadership

Technical documentation, stakeholder translation, dashboard design, multilingual communication, cross-functional planning, mentoring, and project execution.

Certificates

AWS certifications supporting cloud architecture, development, and data engineering work.

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Experience

Professional experience across applied ML, analytics engineering, healthcare analytics, cloud data systems, and international business contexts.

Current Focus

Austin Windsor

Data scientist and analytics engineer focused on applied ML, cloud analytics, recommender systems, causal decision systems, and multilingual analytics.

Education

M.S. Computer Science, Machine Learning Specialization

Georgia Institute of Technology

Graduate coursework focused on machine learning, algorithms, data systems, and applied computing.

B.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Training in optimization, statistics, operations research, and probabilistic systems.

Professional Experience

Cloud Data Scientist / Applied ML

Entertainment Streaming Media · Taipei

Built analytics and ML systems for streaming engagement, recommendations, subscription behavior, and operational reporting using AWS and SQL-based pipelines.

Data Science Manager / Consultant

KPMG · United States

Delivered healthcare, policy, and business analytics using statistical modeling, anomaly detection, visualization, and stakeholder-facing technical communication.

NLP Summer Research Scientist

NTT · Kyoto, Japan

Worked on NLP research using language models, embeddings, corpus augmentation, and model evaluation in a Japanese-speaking R&D environment.

Contact

For professional opportunities, collaborations, or project discussions, contact me by email or LinkedIn. I write my email with “(at)” to reduce scraping.

Location

Taipei, Taiwan / Open to international roles