Summary
Johannes Fischer is a data scientist with a decade of experience applying analytics and engineering to political campaigns, nonprofit research, and voting-rights policy. Based in Washington, DC and raised between Germany and Nashville, he blends rigorous survey methodology and production analytics—having led analytics teams at Data for Progress and built election models and live-updating simulators for the Tennessee Democratic Party and national campaigns. His work spans data engineering, survey design, and visual storytelling for stakeholders from the DNC to the U.S. House, and he currently focuses on product-forward data science at Switchboard. Known for turning messy election and turnout data into operational models used in live campaign decisioning, he pairs open-source tooling experience (R, H2O) with a pragmatic focus on deliverable insights.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at UWC-USA
Bachelor's Degree, Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Economics at Vanderbilt University
English, German, Spanish