Kai Khalil-middlebrook
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKai Khalil-middlebrook is a Senior Data Engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building data platforms, leading cross-functional teams, and shipping production-grade ML and ETL systems at startups and mid-size companies. At ReferralExchange he has designed and operated a distributed data stack on AWS, authored 50+ pipelines moving terabytes of data, and built custom NLP models that measurably improved data quality. He cofounded and scaled a machine-learning education product that grew customers 210% YoY while mentoring and hiring ML instructors, demonstrating both product instincts and people leadership. His background spans applied research in music and genomics—publishing novel architectures for raw-audio modeling and curating large multi-label datasets—bringing a research-to-production mindset. A self-supervised learner with interests in philosophy, neuroscience, and education, Kai excels at translating ambiguous stakeholder needs into pragmatic data solutions that balance accuracy, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Concentration in Computational Analytics, Data Science Concentration in Computational Analytics at University of San FranciscoPoway High School
English
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Github Skills (17)
breakout10
google-colab9
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
science7
python6
data-science6
popularity4
mxnet4
mlops3
spotify3
desktop2
windows2
docker2
sql2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BreakoutMentors/Data-Science-and-Machine-Learning
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Breakout Mentors deep dive lessons and resources on data science and machine learning. All materials are made easily accessible through Google Colab notebooks. Learn more about ML @ Breakout Mentors by visiting the website link below.
Contributions:16 reviews, 138 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years
pythoncode-exercisescolablinkgoogle-colab-notebooks
krmiddlebrook/Artificial-Neural-Network-practice
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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