Carl Vogel is a Data Science and Analytics Manager with 14 years of experience helping teams solve high-impact problems across product, marketing, supply chain, and finance. He combines rigorous statistical modeling, causal experimentation, and pragmatic production deployment to turn complex business questions into reliable decision tools. Carl has led centralized data science organizations, designed company-wide experimentation frameworks, and built monitoring and explainability for core predictive models. As a consultant he’s applied LLMs to routing and scheduling and implemented large-scale simulations for policy evaluation, and as an open-source contributor he improved core functionality in the widely used statsmodels library. Based in Austin, he blends academic training in statistics and economics with hands-on engineering and people leadership to deliver measurable business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. / A.B.D. Economics, M.A. / A.B.D. Economics at University of Toronto
M.A. Statistics, M.A. Statistics at Columbia University
B.A. Economics, B.A. Economics at University of Maryland
Statsmodels: statistical modeling and econometrics in Python
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Carl primarily focused on refactoring and updating the `lowess` function, a core component for locally weighted scatterplot smoothing. This included converting the existing Cython implementation to a more efficient version, along with the updating of imports. They also made code changes related to deprecation warnings and import revisions within the testing suite, implying a role in maintaining the library.
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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