Ben Kite
Lead Data Scientist
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBen Kite is a Lead Data Scientist with eight years of hands-on experience building data-driven backend systems, record linkage pipelines, and GenAI/vector embedding solutions for production. As cofounder of Random Walk Development he blends computational linguistics at scale with cloud ops and backend engineering to operationalize messy real-world data. Previously at Skykit he owned customer analytics, internal reporting, and third‑party migrations, routinely working in JupyterLab and pandas to shepherd datasets from exploration to reliable pipelines. His academic background in statistics from UC Davis underpins pragmatic modeling and diagnostic network work performed for research and defense-funded projects. Ben’s career arc—from teaching and service roles to technical leadership—reveals a knack for translating ambiguous requirements into repeatable systems and empathizing with end users. Colleagues rely on him as the “Swiss Army” data engineer who also tells robots what to do.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics at University of California, DavisMiraCosta CollegePolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Arizona State University
Github Skills (21)
fen8
python-chess8
uci8
probing7
chess-engine7
chess6
parsing6
polyglot6
pickle6
validation5
python5
caching5
gluon4
deep-learning3
lichess3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bkitej/bkj-vending-machine
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Basic vending machine application
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
vending-machine
bkitej/ICEWS_project
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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