Kevin Kent
Senior Data Scientist
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kent is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience applying causal ML, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and LLM-based solutions to cloud reliability and AI platform problems. Currently on Microsoft's CoreAI Insights team, he supports data-driven decisions for Azure OpenAI, GitHub Models, and Copilot after leading SRE-focused analytics and incident response work across Azure-hosted Dragon Medical systems. He blends production-scale PySpark/Databricks engineering with research-grade methods—Generalized Random Forests, Regression Discontinuity, Matrix Profile—and builds RAG apps and CI/CD pipelines for internal operational tooling. Kevin pairs technical leadership and mentoring with hands-on infrastructure-as-code and containerized deployments, drawing on prior roles at Nuance and deep academic training in applied computational math and education research. Outside core analytics he co-organizes the Boston useR meetup and completed career-acceleration fellowships, signaling a commitment to community and continued growth. An uncommon thread through his career is translating educational research rigor into practical observability and capacity-planning solutions for complex cloud products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Urban Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Urban Studies at Hobart and William Smith CollegesHigh School, High School at Trinity-PawlingMasters of Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Masters of Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringData Science, Data Science at The Data IncubatorMaster of Education (Ed.M), Mind, Brain, and Education, Master of Education (Ed.M), Mind, Brain, and Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Github Skills (58)
artificial-intelligence10
prompt10
llm10
openai10
sdk10
ai10
chatgpt9
tidyverse9
dplyr9
linear-models9
tsne9
prompt-engineering9
gpt9
r-language8
mesa8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kevin-m-kent/DataScienceResources
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
kevin-m-kent/youtubeR
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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