Ken Yocum
Principal Data Scientist
Encinitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Yocum is a Principal Data Scientist with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and production data systems, currently driving data science initiatives at Intuit in San Diego. He previously helped found Illumina’s big-data group and built genome-scale processing and ML systems at Human Longevity, applying his UCSD research background in parallel data processing, distributed systems, and data center networking to real-world genomics challenges. Comfortable advising students and shipping software, he blends grant-funded research rigor with pragmatic architecture and engineering for large-scale data. Based in Encinitas, he retains an active researcher’s curiosity, continuing to mentor students and explore new ideas in data processing while translating them into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD computer science, PhD computer science at Duke UniversityBs Computer science, Bs Computer science at Stanford University
Github Skills (35)
deploying10
python8
science8
machine-learning7
package7
bundle7
genomics7
nlp7
bioinformatics6
gwas6
adam6
natural-language-processing6
cryptography6
cffi6
cryptanalysis6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kyocum/disdat
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Data science tool for creating and deploying pipelines with versioned data
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 189 commits in 4 years 3 months
deployingpythonscienceversioneddata-science
seanr15/disdat-examples
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 18 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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