Our Work

Kjamistan was founded by Katharine Jarmul in 2013,when she began working with several different companies to employ data science extraction and modeling, assisting their marketing and growth departments. She saw a need for data science advice leveraging her years of experience in data, product development and customer analysis.

Katharine Jarmul is a privacy activist and data scientist whose work and research focuses on privacy and security in data science workflows. She is author of the well-recieved O'Reilly book Practical Data Privacy, introducing technologists to the world of privacy engineering. She recently worked as a Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks and has held numerous leadership and independent contributor roles at large companies and startups in the US and Germany -- implementing data processing and machine learning systems with privacy and security built in and developing forward-looking, privacy-first data strategy. She is a passionate and internationally recognized data scientist, programmer, and lecturer.

Satisfied Customers

 

We worked with Katharine on an early data-pipeline prototype using both existing and custom natural language processing models to parse French and English texts. Katharine was of tremendous help getting the thing up and running, having a deep understanding of the state of the art and how to improve it. We went from 0 to running prototype in a few months, and we would have never been able to achieve it without her skills and knowledge.

 

Katharine is an inspiring and energetic engineer. Quick to understand business needs, she can act as product owner and business sparring partner to make sure you're aligned and focused. Her wealth of python experience and coaching style made her a popular member of the Marketing Engineering team, and allowed the small team to deliver outstanding results on a mission critical project.

 

We worked with Katharine on a data-scraping project. Katharine was quick to understand and apply her own ideas to the business need and even quicker to deliver very tangible and high quality results. We found working with Katharine to be very pleasant and engaging - and would not hesitate to use her services again!