Caton Brewster
Senior Software Engineer at MyFriendBen
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaton Brewster is a Senior Software Engineer in Denver with 10 years of experience applying data-driven research and analytics to build production software that informs programs, products, and policy. They bridge rigorous impact-evaluation practice and applied engineering—moving from RCT design and large-scale data collection in multiple countries to building content-recommendation systems and analytics dashboards in GCP for findhelp. Caton has repeatedly translated research findings into operational tools that improved program outcomes (including a tripling of treatment effect size in an intervention) and automated data pipelines for organizations serving thousands of beneficiaries. Comfortable across Python, SQL/BigQuery, and BI stacks, they combine hands-on engineering with a policy-minded perspective from an MS in Computational Analysis & Public Policy. Now in senior engineering roles at mission-driven startups, Caton brings a rare mix of field research rigor and scalable software delivery to help teams make better decisions with data.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computational Analysis & Public Policy, Master of Science in Computational Analysis & Public Policy at Harris School of Public Policy at the University of ChicagoBachelor's degree Economics Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Economics Mathematics at Washington University in St. LouisEconomics, Economics at Washington and Lee University
Github Skills (4)
stata10
census9
research-data-management9
statistics8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
catonbrewster/I2Q
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
catonbrewster/Practice
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 days
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