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)
duplication10
modular10
in-progress10
preprocessing10
filter10
freebsd10
ansible-collections10
toolchain10
python-bindings10
multiprocessing10
windows10
seq10
genome-assembly10
3d-models10
rna-seq10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
auerlab/biolibc-tools
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 148 pushes, 5 tags in 3 years 7 months
auerlab/CNC-EMDiff
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:229 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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