Economics is where I spent my actual undergraduate career, and I worked as a fintech data analyst and engineer in the early years of my career. While I work professionally as a more general software engineer at this point, I still like to keep up with more econometrics and policy-focused topics.
When I was studying economics, most of my academic focus was in market design and non-monetary systems like:
- Efficient task delegation, which — very helpfully — carries over to efficiencies in distributed computing and project management;
- Matchmaking algorithms; and
- Incentive structures in markets where monetary compensation is a secondary concern, such as the open-source software (OSS) ecosystem.