Marc Joffe
President at California Policy Center
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Joffe is a public policy and public finance expert with 14 years of experience blending financial technology, credit analytics, and policy research to inform fiscal decision-making. He has led product and development teams at Moody's and Moody's KMV, built open-source credit frameworks for sovereign and municipal analysis, and now serves as President of the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association while advising the California Policy Center. His work bridges hands-on application development and rigorous credit modeling—producing practical tools like municipal scoring models and the Public Sector Credit Framework used in research and consulting. Marc regularly publishes op-eds and technical studies on public pensions, healthcare, and infrastructure funding, drawing on a rare mix of bank technology, analytics, and policy shop experience. Based in Walnut Creek, he combines an MBA in finance and an MPA with a pragmatic focus on data collection and reproducible analysis to make complex fiscal risks accessible to policymakers and the public. An understated strength is his track record of turning academic credit models into operational products and public-facing datasets that drive transparency.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Public Administration, Master’s Degree Public Administration at San Francisco State UniversityGeneral AssemblyBA Economics, BA Economics at New York UniversityMBA Finance, MBA Finance at NYU Stern School of Business
Github Skills (58)
credit9
sector9
tabula8
jar7
readable7
csv7
human-readable7
php6
xbrl6
excel6
pdf6
risk-assessment5
pdf-generation5
pdfium5
pdf-files5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joffemd/pscf
Mar 2012 - Jun 2015
Public Sector Credit Framework
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 3 months
phpcreditsectorpublic-sector
govwiki/rating_history
Nov 2017 - Jun 2023
Download and parse credit rating history files that US rating agencies generate each month in accordance with SEC Rule 17g-7
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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