Evan Kepner
Senior Director, Data Science
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Kepner is a Senior Director of Data Science at Capital One with 11 years of experience scaling analytics and machine learning teams through roles from manager to director and now senior leadership. He blends technical depth—grounded in a Master of Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley and an earlier STEM background in neuroscience and chemistry—with product-oriented delivery across financial services. His career path reflects hands-on engineering and operational experience in virtualization, consulting, and research, giving him a rare fluency in both infrastructure and advanced modeling. Known for mentoring and building cross-functional teams, he focuses on turning ML research into production-ready solutions that drive business impact. An early Peace Corps volunteer and former researcher at a supercomputing center, he brings a global, research-informed perspective to enterprise data strategy.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science Data Science, Master of Information and Data Science Data Science at UC Berkeley School of InformationB.S. Neuroscience Chemistry Medicinal Ethics, B.S. Neuroscience Chemistry Medicinal Ethics at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (65)
xgboost10
dataflow10
python10
testing10
forge10
client-server10
aiohttp10
portable10
async10
gradient10
mutation-testing10
conda10
functional-testing10
http-server10
mutation10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samacart/Park-Or-Bird
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:82 commits in 2 months
EvanKepner/bazaar
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:50 PRs, 84 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
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