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 (21)
data-science8
python7
nlp6
genomics6
bioinformatics6
natural-language-processing6
package6
cryptography5
bundle5
r5
avro5
pyinstaller4
java4
spacy4
parquet3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
seanr15/disdat-examples
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 18 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 8 months
kyocum/disdat-luigi
Jan 2022 - Oct 2025
Luigi workflows that automatically version data
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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