Summary
Kaitlyn Yang is a Senior Data Analyst at Capital One with nine years of hands-on experience blending data engineering, machine learning feature development, and applied cybersecurity research. She holds a MS and BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and progressed rapidly from Data Analyst to a senior role focused on AML modeling and advanced data insights. Her background spans building production data pipelines, automating analytics with SQL, Python, and Databricks, and crafting dashboards that scale for business stakeholders. Kaitlyn’s early research and web-development work — translating Obsidian markdown into styled HTML and creating taxonomies of privacy risks — reveal a strong appetite for tooling that improves data accessibility and reproducibility. She also has practical security and detection experience from a Cisco Talos internship, where she contributed to adaptive email spam detection. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, she combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to turn complex data into actionable model-ready features.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Poolesville High School