Who am I?
About Me
- Name: Nimish Gåtam
- From: The USA
- Currently: Malmö, Sweden
- Email: nimishg@gmail.com
Quick Blurb
I believe knowledge and information want to be free, and I want to help it, whether through analysis or dissemination.
I also like to dabble in the world of gadgets and open source technology— I mean, we do live in the future after all.
Roles and Responsibilities
Work Experience
Responsibilities
SaaS product to eliminate biased language from job ads using machine learning
Architectural lead and product process lead for research and development team
Led company from pre-seed to seed round investment
Responsibilities
Technology making public affairs more accessible to the general public
Developed experimental machine learning features to assist public affairs professionals
Coordinated inter-organization research partnership projects in machine learning
Responsibilities
Data analysis, data methodology and consulting services
Partnership work with analysis and journalism houses
This is my primary company for external consulting work. For more info, please visit datastrategy.se
Responsibilities
I used combinations of software usage data and internal business data to develop new strategies on how to scale, and helped implement them across the organization
I did extensive statistical analysis on user behavior data and survey data to create business recommendations and quarterly objectives
I designed and coded an extensible internal reporting infrastructure and business data storage solution
Responsibilities
Basidia
The goal of this project was to build a platform for sharing and creating educational resources
for the Danish educational system. As CTO, my role was to draw up technical specifications for this platform,
as well as leading in-house and outsourced team members in development. I also conducted extensive user interviews and user studies
for requirements elicitation.
Saxo.com
As Basidia became more integrated with Saxo.com, my role was the same as above, only the products were Saxo Publish, Saxo Print-On-Demand and Saxo Education.
Responsibilities
Usability Initiative
As part of the Wikipedia Usability Initiative, I gathered qualitative and quantitative data
on the usage of Wikipedia and its sister projects, looking at the findings, and, with my teammates,
wrote code to implement the changes that would best meet our usability goals.
Research Analyst
When the organization grew larger, I continued as a research analyst in Global Development.
My responsibilities were to gather data on global usage, building a generic analytics framework for this data,
and summarizing the insights from it for the organization and the wiki community.
Responsibilities
I worked on user behavior analysis for products in Yahoo! Travel.
Additionally, I conducted A/B tests of various landing pages.
This role also involved extensive front-end web development with javascript, specifically the YUI libraries
What I'm involved in
Current Projects
DemokrIT
Open source software to build a better democracy
visAvis
Voices on Asylum and Migration
Alternativet
Political party focusing on sustainable, creative democracy
AirTenna
Using TV white space for rural wi-fi
What I learned
Education
2005 August - 2007 May
Carnegie-Mellon
Masters Technology
Graduate Degree
Masters of Language Technology, part of the School of Computer Science. This program is divided between classwork and academic research. My work focused on using statistical and machine learning techniques for text-to-text translation.
Additional coursework included software design, search engine development, and interface/interaction design.
2000 August - 2003 December
Georgia Tech
Bachelors of Science
Undergraduate Degree
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Specializations in Cognitive Science, Networking, and Video Game Design
What I know
Skills & Knowledge
Technology
- Python
- ReactJS
- D3JS
- jQuery
- AngularJS
- Javascript / ECMAScript
- Java
- Machine Learning
- C/C#
- Linux/Unix
- MySQL
- Postgres
Languages
English
NativeDanish
ConversationalJapanese
BasicSwedish
IntermediateGerman
BasicNepali/Hindi
BasicHobbies & Interests
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Acroyoga
AcroyogaAcroyoga is the practice of finding balance and connection with others.
Plus it's fun and teaches you fancy acrobatics. One of my favorite activities. -
Linguistics
LinguisticsI'm continuously fascinated by the different structures in languages and languages in general
I'd learn them all if I could. -
Meditation
MeditationWe don't have to wander around being stressed out all the time, nor should we.
Meditation is mental exercise in the purest form. -
Software
Software HackingTinkering with tech, especially open-source.
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Hardware
Hardware HackingI've never been particularly good at this, but it's something I aim to improve on in the future. I especially like tinkering with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards.