Kevin Zhao
Data Scientist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Zhao is a data scientist with 11 years of engineering experience who combines rigorous CS training from Georgia Tech (BS/MS) with hands-on ML and software delivery at firms including BlackRock and Elevance Health. He has built production-ready ML pipelines and deployed LLM-powered NLP workflows to extract trends from complex healthcare complaints, communicating results to VP-level stakeholders. His research experience at Georgia Tech involved implementing and training distributed LLMs for efficient code generation, bridging cutting-edge models with practical data engineering. Kevin also brings full-stack software experience from Ford, where his tooling improvements measurably boosted team testing productivity. Comfortable translating research into production, he blends Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and cloud-scale data processing to move projects from prototype to impact. Notably, he pairs academic rigor with a knack for clear technical documentation and executive-facing storytelling.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
mach-o4
windbg4
malware4
emulation4
linux3
instrumentation2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sixteen-b-liability-calculator/comp521-mirror
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:88 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
valakuzhyk/pokernow_club_stats
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Gives stats of your play on pokernow.club given the logs.
Contributions:3 reviews, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 1 month
statslogspokernow-club
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