Experience – Chanteria Milner

Professional

July 2024 – Present

Owned full-stack development, data engineering, and ops across critical economic data tools.
Built batch correction and ML-powered pipelines to reduce manual errors by 90%+.
Designed and deployed an enterprise AI search engine integrating LLM-powered hybrid search.
Improved access to supply chain data via Django REST APIs and Angular visualizations.

November 2023 – June 2024

Built survey processing app with Angular + Django, boosting speed by 75%.
Advanced application security with JSON Web Tokens and SSO integration for robust authentication protocols.
Optimized AWS server configurations by automating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and implementing IaC with Ansible.
Authored detailed documentation and developer onboarding guides, reducing onboarding time for new engineers.

June 2023 – November 2023

Built a large-scale data ingestion pipeline for 40+ years of Census data, standardizing unstructured financial records.
Reduced manual data preprocessing and cleaning workload by 80% through the creation of a Flask application.
Eliminated manual federal finance and employment data collection efforts with advanced web scraping algorithms.

August 2022 – November 2023

Authored white papers and briefs on demographic research methods.
Developed a Flask app for mapping nonprofits across Illinois.
Co-published a paper analyzing measurements of systemic racism in healthcare studies titled "Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?".

June 2022 – August 2022

Led statistical modeling efforts to analyze national public opinion surveys, using logistic regression, Bayesian inference.
Conducted sentiment analysis on open-ended survey responses, uncovering key themes in policy discussions.
Compiled survey toplines to elucidate key statistics and trends; produced public-use datasets to foster data transparency and allow external analysts and researchers access to NORC's rich data trove for secondary analysis.

Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research
November 2022

This work showcased innovative methodologies for gauging public sentiment on contemporary issues through new media platforms.

Coding it Forward Demo Day
August 2022

This presentation showcased my work as a 2023 Coding it Forward Data Engineering fellow and the U.S. Census Bureau.

North Central Sociological Association Conference
April 2022

This presentation delved into societal attitudes towards contraceptive methods across different demographic groups.