Jason Vargo
Senior Researcher, Community Development at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJason Vargo is a senior researcher in community development based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience at the intersection of public health, climate science, and data-driven policy. He has led statewide modeling and decision-support efforts—most notably co-leading California’s COVID-19 modeling and product-managing CalCAT—and builds reproducible analytical platforms that translate complex climate and health data into actionable tools. His work spans geospatial analysis, downscaled climate data, machine learning, and interactive R/Shiny dashboards, and he has overseen the end-to-end development of the California Climate Exposures Database. Jason combines academic rigor (PhD in City & Regional Planning, MPH) with practical program delivery across state agencies and universities, and is known for institutionalizing best practices like version control, cloud workflows, and open-source tooling. An oft-overlooked strength is his ability to bridge technical model development with stakeholder-facing communication, turning high-resolution science into usable policy metrics such as California’s Health Equity Metric.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Chemical Engineering, BSE, Chemical Engineering at University of MichiganMCRP, Environmental Planning, MCRP, Environmental Planning at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMPH, Global Environmental Health, MPH, Global Environmental Health at Emory University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
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data-mining1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
syounkin/ITHIM
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 7 months
vargovargo/professional
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:100 commits, 46 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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