Josephine Dodge - Research Assistant at University of Chicago

Josephine Dodge

Research Assistant at University of Chicago

New York City Metropolitan Area United States

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Josephine Dodge is a research-focused data scientist and software contributor with four years of experience at the intersection of empirical economics, public policy, and distributed systems. Based in the New York City area and trained in mathematics and economics at the University of Chicago, she blends rigorous causal inference and Bayesian methods with practical data engineering—cleaning bank transaction data, building structured R databases of RCTs, and producing publication-ready visualizations and LaTeX outputs. On the engineering side she has contributed UI and database-console improvements to the high-profile CockroachDB open-source project, improving job metrics, UX, and SQL stats reliability. Comfortable moving between academic collaborations (Harris School, IFS, Global Poverty Lab) and hands-on implementation, she brings a knack for turning messy real-world data into transparent, reproducible analyses. An often-overlooked strength is her experience in stakeholder-facing roles—from workshops with health-policy experts to building internal tools—that helps translate technical results into actionable policy insights.

4 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

BS in Mathematics, BA in Economics, BS in Mathematics, BA in Economics at University of Chicago

High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Princeton High School

Github Skills (11)

databases10

go10

cockroachdb10

distributed-database10

database10

admin9

database-administration9

sql8

ui-design7

front-end-development7

uid7

Programming languages (5)

TypeScriptCSSJavaScriptGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

cockroachdb/cockroach

Oct 2021 - Jun 2022

CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:101 reviews, 45 commits, 37 PRs in 7 months

Contributions summary:Josephine primarily contributed to the UI and database console features, modifying the UI to surface more job metrics around reverting and retrying. They also made changes to the statements and transactions pages to use the TimeScaleDropdown component. In addition, the user fixed issues related to the reset SQL stats functionality in both DB Console and CC Console. They also improved UX on the jobs page, with a focus on visual improvements and timeout handling.

distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql

jocrl/cockroach

Oct 2021 - Jun 2022

CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

Contributions:197 pushes, 96 branches in 7 months

distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasenosqlmysql

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