Kevin Yancey

Kevin Yancey

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ABOUT ME
Full Stack Developer & Machine Learning Engineer
Full Stack Developer & Machine Learning Engineer

I started learning to program when I was 10 years old, and have had a passion for it ever since. As an adult, I've worked for a variety of companies developing robust and secure business applications and system-to-system interfaces for government agencies and financial services companies. I now work for a unicorn tech company as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, having acquired my masters in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Through my work experience, I have gained extensive application development expertise and specialized knowledge in network/socket programming, graphics and UI programming, web services programming, secure application design, data analysis, and machine learning.

English
Seoul (+09:00)
Joined June 2015
EXPERTISE
4 years experience
I completed a two-year masters in Machine Learning at the top of my class in 2018, specializing in natural language processing. I now wo...
I completed a two-year masters in Machine Learning at the top of my class in 2018, specializing in natural language processing. I now work as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for a unicorn tech company.
4 years experience
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, whether is doing data analysis or creating microservices, most of my day-to-day work is done in Py...
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, whether is doing data analysis or creating microservices, most of my day-to-day work is done in Python these days.
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12 years experience | 1 endorsement
Back in 2002/2003, I participated in a Web Services contest for college students hosted by Microsoft. As such, I was among the first peo...
Back in 2002/2003, I participated in a Web Services contest for college students hosted by Microsoft. As such, I was among the first people to receive a copy of C#/.NET and the development tools that went along with it. C# has since been my main programming language in my 12+ year software development career. I have gained an in-depth understanding of C# and the .NET framework not only through development, but also by following the blogs of people such as Eric Lippert, who design and guide the language and tools and explain why they do the things the way they do them.
14 years experience | 4 endorsements
At several of my past jobs, I have been the primary person responsible for building, optimizing, and administrating our application datab...
At several of my past jobs, I have been the primary person responsible for building, optimizing, and administrating our application databases, and well as developing numerous reports involving very complex SQL queries. I also worked on a number of database migration projects that involved analyzing, cleaning, and transforming data from a legacy database into a new database schema. At my last job, I also developed a data warehouse and a SSAS Data Cube to support business intelligence analysis for our organization.
4 years experience
Five years ago I taught myself Scala, as it had language features I was seeking for an experimental API I was working on. Since then, it...
Five years ago I taught myself Scala, as it had language features I was seeking for an experimental API I was working on. Since then, it has become my favorite programming language, and I use it for most of my personal projects. Among other things, I've used the scala play framework to develop a website for sharing, searching, and rating ESL lesson planning resources.

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(28 reviews)
James Masso
James Masso
June 2016
Kevin is not only exceptionally proficient in his areas of expertise but a fantastic communicator when it comes to explaining and teaching the something that would otherwise seem extremely complex.
Vijay
Vijay
June 2016
Thanks for Helping me. I will be in touch with you if I need any thing further.
Leonard
Leonard
October 2015
Another awesome session with Kevin. I have been studying SQL Server now for a while and I needed some real world insights into projects. Kevin walked me through some of the projects he's done, including some of the challenges and learning points. Very information session.
Leonard
Leonard
September 2015
Kevin was phenomenal. He understood the issue, solved it in no time and also explained to me what was wrong. He clearly knows his stuff. I will definitely be having more sessions with Kevin in the future. Thanks Kevin.
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