Summary
Randy Rosso is a senior consultant and data specialist with 13 years of experience applying SAS, R, Stata, and web tools to policy research on hunger, poverty, and health. He has a strong track record at think tanks and nonprofit advocacy organizations—helping build longitudinal databases, automating national report production, and creating interactive maps and microsimulation-driven analyses that inform federal program monitoring. Currently based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he combines policy fluency with hands-on ETL and reporting work for The Lewin Group and his consultancy, The Food Data Nerd. Randy’s background includes clinical trial data work and military health survey analytics, reflecting a rare blend of public-interest policy analysis and disciplined, reproducible data engineering. He enjoys sharing data resources with networks of state and local partners, and has repeatedly streamlined codebases to improve efficiency and quality control.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Sociology, BA, Sociology at The College of William and Mary
MPP, Public Policy, MPP, Public Policy at William & Mary