Zac Garland
Director - Product Innovation
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZac Garland is a data-driven product innovation leader with eight years of experience blending econometrics, data science, and software development across financial services. Based in Austin, he has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Mastercard—moving from hands-on econometric modeling and web development to directing product innovation. He’s a self-taught developer and investor who built analytics tools and equity research platforms earlier in his career, pairing practical engineering with quantitative finance expertise. Zac has a track record of translating macroeconomic modeling and text-mining insights into executive-facing products and pitches, and he also founded community and fundraising initiatives outside work. His cross-disciplinary background in finance, management, and code enables him to bridge technical teams and C-suite strategy effectively.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Finance; B.S. Management, B.S. Finance; B.S. Management at University of Northern Colorado
Github Skills (81)
htmlwidgets10
r-package10
docco10
r9
quarto9
shiny9
cop9
powerpoint9
cran9
social-network-analysis9
d3js9
wrapper9
highcharts8
plotly8
jstree8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zac-garland/fmpr
Jul 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
zac-garland/zgtools
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
an R package that holds some of my favorite general functions
Contributions:1 PR, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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