Barrett Kirwan
Senior Economist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarrett Kirwan is a Senior Economist at Amazon with nine years of experience bridging academic research and large-scale industry analytics. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and spent over a decade as an assistant professor before transitioning to applied economic roles at Amazon, where he has led teams and delivered data-driven predictive models. Barrett combines deep econometric and causal inference expertise with practical implementation in production environments, informing pricing, forecasting, and strategic decisions. Based in Seattle, he is comfortable translating complex theory into clear business insights and scalable analytical products. A detail that sets him apart is his long academic tenure, which gives him a strong publication-quality approach to problem formulation and rigorous validation in industry settings.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Economics, PhD, Economics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
barrettkirwan/cheatFlash
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
barrettkirwan/Emacs
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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