Markus Goldstein
Vice President And Senior Fellow at Center for Global Development
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Goldstein is a senior leader and economist with nearly two decades of experience applying causal analysis and machine learning to high-impact public and corporate policy decisions. He has led research that influenced over $10 billion in public programs and amassed more than 11,400 citations across top economics, science, and medical journals. After long tenures at LSE and the World Bank and a recent leadership role at Amazon, he now serves as Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, building high-performing teams that translate evidence into actionable strategy. Markus blends economics, psychology, and data science to design interventions and measurement frameworks, and even contributes hands-on to technical projects such as network simulation tooling on GitHub, signaling a rare mix of rigorous academic scholarship and practical engineering chops.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Agriculture and Resource Economics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (7)
autoconf10
ip10
go10
ddos10
networking10
tcp10
automake10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Markus-Go/bonesi
May 2008 - Dec 2018
BoNeSi - the DDoS Botnet Simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 12 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily focused on enhancing the BoNeSi project, a DDoS botnet simulator. Their contributions included fixing bugs, adding fragmentation support for TCP/HTTP-GET attacks, and implementing improvements for TCP mode, including MTU configuration. The user also updated build tools and fixed compiler warnings and made changes to the project's license. Their work involved modifying core source files related to network attack simulation.
Markus-Go/HBOS-python
Mar 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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