Kyle Carlson Email & Phone Number

California, United States

California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

South San Francisco, California, Us

- Founded and lead the experimentation platform (aka A/B testing) we use across the company. - Work with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to incorporate experimentation and optimization into their product development.- End-to-end ownership of experiment stack, including software and data engineering in Ruby, Scala, Spark, Flink, JavaScript/React, SQL, Python, SignalFX. Own multiple libraries and high-traffic services used in production.

South San Francisco, California, Us

- Design and implementation of Stripe's experimentation platform. Partnering with engineering teams and internal users to design the platform. We own: interface and analytics (JavaScript/React), randomization service (Scala), instrumentation pipelines (Spark, Ruby), and client/configuration (Ruby). - Built end-to-end systems to segment users. Integrations with third-party data providers (Python), data integration, Hadoop (Scalding/Scala) pipelines, analysis and reporting of results for sales and marketing decisions. Integrated segmentation into production sales lead routing pipeline (basic Ruby). - Built experiment framework for monitoring the user conversion funnel during staged rollouts (Python, Airflow). Based on survival analysis and non-inferiority tests implemented in Python.- Collaborated with ops engineers to build A/B testing tools. Wrote statistical calculations and reporting (JavaScript).- Ad hoc experimentation and analyses to support critical user-facing product changes.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- MS in Applied Economics program- Developed and taught course Ec626 Experiments and Causal Inference- https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/kyle-carlson

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Audience metrics, user lifetime value, causal effects of international initiatives

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Behavioral economics research | Applied microeconomics | Experiments

Boston, Ma, Us

Center for Behavioral Economics and Decisionmaking- Worked for economists Lorenz Goette, Anat Bracha, and Julian Jamison.- Managed a telephone survey of 700+ subprime homeowners.- Ran and administered payments for experiments on competition and decision-making at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory.- Analyzed data on economic games and sexually transmitted diseases from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania.- Copy-edited the research department's working paper series with Suzanne Lorant.- Storyboarded animations and prototyped chloropleth maps for data visualizations on mortgage defaults and income mobility.

Lausanne, Vaud, Ch

Department of Econometrics and Political Economy- Programmed cognitive tasks for an experiment on brain-training.- Managed daily software updates, data collection, subject compliance, and hardware for 2 training labs over the course of the 2 month experiment.- Analyzed effects of training on cognitive performance and economic preferences (risk, time, and social).

Department of Economics, Methodist Le Bonheur Center for Healthcare Economics- Analyzed micro-data on emergency room visits to determine whether insurance type influences the frequency of avoidable visits to the ER.

Phd, Behavioral Economics

Ms, Behavioral And Social Neuroscience, Behavioral Economics

Education record

Education record

Education record

Spanish

Ba, Economics, Philosophy, Spanish