Kelly Vincent
Senior Data Scientist
Renton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Vincent is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying Python, predictive analytics, machine learning, and NLP to drive business decisions across retail and consumer brands, currently leading data science at Hill's Pet Nutrition. Her career blends production ML and data engineering—from building predictive models and data validation at Costco to automation and root-cause analytics at ServiceNow—paired with a strong research and academic background in speech and language processing. Beyond applied analytics, she is a prolific author and editor with an MFA in Creative Writing, having published technical and fiction books and even translated works, which informs her strengths in communicating complex models to nontechnical stakeholders. She holds multiple data and ML certificates from the University of Washington and an MS in Information Systems, reflecting continual investment in both technical depth and storytelling craft. An underrated asset is her history of building tools for bioinformatics and large-scale text processing, showing ease moving between domain-specific research and production systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Machine Learning, Certificate Machine Learning at University of WashingtonMS Information Systems, MS Information Systems at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBA History History of Science, BA History History of Science at University of OklahomaM.Sc. Speech and Language Processing, M.Sc. Speech and Language Processing at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Arts - BA Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematical Sciences at University of Illinois SpringfieldOSSMN/A History Archeology, N/A History Archeology at University of GlasgowMaster of Fine Arts - MFA Creative Writing, Master of Fine Arts - MFA Creative Writing at Oklahoma City University
Github Skills (9)
genomics10
sequencing10
pipeline9
science9
bioinformatics9
python7
docker7
workflow-engine6
data-science5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kellyv/datasciencecoursera
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
kellyv/ExData_Plotting1
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
data-analysispythonexploratoryplottingexploratory-data-analysis
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