Eric Son

Eric Son is a data engineer at QuestBridge, a national nonprofit that connects low-income, high-achieving students with full financial support to the nation’s best colleges and opportunities. Eric has a passion for data engineering and visualization and has used their skills to make an impact in a variety of organizations.

Most recently, Eric was a data engineering fellow at the National Institutes of Health, where they designed Django web APIs to display NIH's $70M healthcare budget and utility consumption data. Eric also developed ETL jobs to automate data processing, wrote MySQL queries to move 12 years of data into server, and automated an R Shiny visualization and reporting tool that summarizes energy usage and cost avoidance data.

Before their fellowship at the NIH, Eric served as a strategic targeting analyst at EAB, leading an initiative to develop web-application automation tools that reduced operational execution time for 250 undergraduate clients by 90%. Eric also worked as a program associate at the Colonial Williamsburg Bruton Heights Education Center and as a teaching assistant for East Asian Cultures Through Film at William & Mary.

Eric graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in public policy. Eric is originally from Seattle, Washington.

Eric Son received a Master of Science in Computational Analysis and Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Film/Media Studies from William & Mary. Eric also studied Development Economics and International Development at the University of Exeter Business School.