Kayo Sady
Senior Research Scientist - Talent Assessment at Amazon
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKayo Sady, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at Amazon specializing in talent assessment, employee selection, validation strategies, and compensation equity with nine years of experience. He combines rigorous quantitative methods in EEO contexts with product-focused research to help Amazon become Earth’s Best Employer. Previously an Associate Principal Consultant at DCI Consulting Group, he has deep experience measuring adverse impact and evaluating compensation practices for legal and operational robustness. Kayo has published and edited practical guides on legal issues in organizations and taught statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also contributes to open-source engineering work—recently improving backend security and configuration for a high-performance TypeScript file vault—demonstrating a practical blend of research, policy, and applied software skills. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and hands-on implementation to people analytics and assessment systems.
9 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Ph.D. at University of HoustonB.S., B.S. at Boise State University
Github Skills (10)
filename10
configuration-management10
nodejs10
file-upload10
security10
typescript-types9
expressjs9
typescript9
typescripts9
html8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chibisafe/chibisafe
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Blazing fast file vault written in TypeScript! 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 23 PRs, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kayo primarily contributed to back-end configurations and security improvements within the file vault project. They made changes to the `config.sample.js` file, adding notes about `client_max_body_size` and blacklisting additional file extensions, suggesting a focus on file upload security. The user also updated the github URL and fixed URLs across multiple HTML pages, updating the UI.
nginxfile-uploadblazingjavascriptlolisafe
RyoshiKayo/Discord-Shell
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 21 days
discordshell
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