Carlos Ignacio
Navarro

I grew up in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas — across the Rio Grande from Donna, TX, in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley. Growing up on the border meant growing up bilingual, bicultural, and fluent in navigating between worlds. That instinct for context — who the data affects, where people actually live — has shaped every research project I've touched since.

My career traces a deliberate arc from the border outward. I started in cross-border logistics at TRANCASA, then interned with the Economic Policy Institute in Silicon Valley, studying post-recession recovery for low-income families. At the Bush School I received the U.S. Congress–George H.W. Bush Fellowship and delivered a comparative security analysis to U.S. Southern Command. That researcher identity deepened at PERC (Texas A&M), where I built economic indices, co-authored a peer-reviewed study on Medicaid and recidivism, and directed a COVID-19 business impact survey. At Texas 2036 I translated complex data into legislative recommendations on workforce and criminal justice. Since January 2025 I've served as Data Scientist at the Texas Space Commission, engineering the state's first space workforce index.

I bring to big tech a combination that's genuinely rare: rigorous econometric training, production-grade data science skills (Python, SQL, Stata, ML), and a decade of translating ambiguous, high-stakes problems into decisions that moved policy. I work across sectors, communicate fluently to both technical and executive audiences, and carry a bilingual, international perspective built into everything I do. I'm looking for a team where measurement, causal thinking, and real-world impact are taken seriously.