Khyatee Desai
Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKhyatee Desai is a data scientist with nine years of experience applying machine learning and analytics to drive business impact, most recently owning a predictive ML model for AWS Central Economics that scaled from 3 to 200+ services and improved performance by double-digit percentage points. Based in New York and finishing an MS in Data Science at CUNY (3.9 GPA), she combines production ML lifecycle ownership—data wrangling, feature engineering, evaluation, and deployment—with a strong background in technical customer engagement from her Solutions Architect role at AWS. She has a track record of translating model outputs into operational decisions, including inventing a revenue-impact evaluation metric and performing ablation studies across diverse data sources. Beyond enterprise ML, she co-developed a high-school data science curriculum module and has taught workshops on practical tooling like Pandas and ETL, reflecting a passion for education and widening access to data skills. A photographer and music enthusiast, she brings curiosity and a systems-thinking lens to social-data problems and advocacy-driven analysis.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Analysis and User Experience Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Analysis and User Experience Design at University of Michigan - School of InformationMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.9, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.9 at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkData Science, Data Science at Flatiron School
Gujarati, English
Github Skills (5)
flatiron5
crossword4
exploratory4
abaqus3
mta1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
khyateed/khyateed.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
khyateed/partial-derivatives-lab-data-science-intro-000
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:128 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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