David Zink

Economist | Amazon

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Economist II at Amazon
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Quantitative Specialist at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
    Jun 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs

  • Quantitative Fellow at Federal Reserve System
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Estimated staggered difference-in-differences models to evaluate the impact of wildfire-induced property damage on mortgage repayment • Developed an R program leveraging geospatial and parallel processing techniques to calculate the distance of properties to wildfire perimeters for over 1 billion observations • Wrote technical documentation and validated production code for Copula-based bond yield models • Used econometrics to assess the impact of bank M&A activity on PPNR model performance

  • University of California, Santa Cruz (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Teaching Assistant
      Sep 2015 - Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 10 mos

    • Graduate Student Instructor
      Jun 2019 - Jul 2019 · 2 mos

      I taught introductory microeconomics