Summary
Garrett Hagemann is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of applied economics and data science experience, currently shaping product decisions at Netflix after a multi-year tenure as an economist at Twitch and Amazon. He specializes in modeling multi-sided marketplaces, designing experiments, and quantifying cross-side impacts to inform product and policy choices. With a PhD in Economics from UT Austin, he blends rigorous causal inference and economic theory with pragmatic analytics to drive measurable product improvements. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex system interactions into testable interventions that improve platform health and user outcomes. Notably, his background spans both academic research and high-scale industry experimentation, giving him a rare fluency in theory-driven, production-ready analysis.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at University of Chicago