Kihoon Sohn
Lead Instructor at General Assembly
North Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Summary
👤
SeniorKihoon Sohn is a data strategist and lead instructor with eight years of experience helping career-changers master Python, SQL, machine learning, and data visualization at General Assembly while also advising nonprofits on enterprise data strategy. He combines patient, client-oriented teaching with hands-on data work—building dashboards, data warehouses, and analysis pipelines—to turn messy inputs into decision-ready insights. Known for empathetic leadership and a knack for explaining complex concepts in plain English, Kihoon has been repeatedly recognized by peers for his enthusiasm and effectiveness in the classroom. His nonprofit background gives him a practical lens on resource-constrained analytics and impact measurement. Outside work he obsessively optimizes travel rewards, a hobby that reflects his attention to detail and systematic thinking. Based in North Bethesda, MD, he blends practical data engineering skills with learner-focused pedagogy to accelerate both organizational and individual outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
English, Korean, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
predict8
prediction-model6
datasets5
apply5
machine-learning4
deep-learning3
python3
data-science3
kaggle3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
haoapple/The_Lab_DC_client_project
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Client project | thelab@DC | A team repository to predict gunshots over multiple open source datasets
Contributions:35 commits, 26 PRs, 35 pushes in 17 days
client-projectdata-sciencedeep-learningdatasetmachine-learning
haoapple/git-busters
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
A tutorial repo
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
javascript
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.