Ozzie Gooen
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarOzzie Gooen is President of the Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute with 12 years of experience building forecasting systems and probability-first decision tools. He founded Guesstimate — a Monte Carlo-enabled spreadsheet for uncertain quantities — and folded it into QURI in 2023, demonstrating his ability to turn practical products into research infrastructure. His background spans hands-on software and product leadership (including first engineer/product lead roles) and academic-facing research as a Research Scholar at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. Based in Berkeley and trained in engineering with an economics concentration at Harvey Mudd, he blends quantitative rigor with product sensibility and nonprofit governance, having served on the boards of Rethink Priorities and Rethink Charity. Early projects — from wearable computing prototypes to a solar-power deployment in Kenya — reveal a pragmatic curiosity that drives his approach to real-world forecasting and decision problems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (197)
monte-carlo10
probability10
graphs10
distributions10
cytoscapejs10
machine-learning10
forecasting10
reloading10
theory9
javascript9
phone-numbers9
forecasts9
datepicker9
html9
python9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
quantified-uncertainty/squiggle
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
An estimation language
Contributions:2 releases, 1794 reviews, 822 commits in 2 years 2 months
forecastingprobabilityestimationmachine-learning
getguesstimate/guesstimate-documentation-old
Jul 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:11 PRs, 45 pushes, 12 branches in 7 years 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.