Jason Bacon
Actuarial Manager at Oscar Health
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJason Bacon is an Actuarial Manager in Austin with 13 years of quantitative and technical experience blending actuarial science, software/systems engineering, and bioinformatics. He leads risk adjustment, forecasting, and optimization at Oscar Health after driving commercial and Medicare risk models, RADV valuation, and pricing assumptions at Bright Health. His background includes hands-on data engineering and analytics across healthcare, education, and ranch operations—where he applied predictive forecasts and financial analytics to cattle management—demonstrating an unusual mix of domain breadth and practical implementation. A committed open-source maintainer on FreeBSD ports and pkgsrc, he pairs production actuarial work with systems-level development and tooling. Academically grounded with advanced mathematics training and a BS in Math & Computer Science, he excels at turning complex, noisy data into actionable, auditable decisions.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Degree, Mathematics, Masters Degree, Mathematics at Texas Tech UniversityPhd Cont., Mathematics, Phd Cont., Mathematics at The University of Texas at Arlington
English, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Latin
Github Skills (200)
slurm10
duplication10
windows10
openbsd10
microbiome10
gene-expression10
overlap10
genome-assembly10
3d10
genomics10
clustering10
kallisto10
bedtools10
next-generation-sequencing10
chimera10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
outpaddling/plasm
May 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
outpaddling/fbsd2pkg
May 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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