Khayyon Parker

👋 Hi, I’m Khayyon Parker

🚀 Data Scientist | Backend Engineer | Generative AI Developer
🎓 B.A. in Computer Science – Colorado College | Data Science Nanodegree – Udacity
🧠 Passionate about AI, cloud-scale systems, and building useful things with data.

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💻 Tech Stack

• Languages: Python, Java, SQL
• Frameworks: FastAPI, PySpark, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Tools: Hugging Face, OpenAI API, LangChain, FAISS, Streamlit, SQLAlchemy
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), Docker, Git, CI/CD

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🧠 AI & Deep Learning Projects

Project	Description	Tools
🎨 Neural Style Transfer	Blends content + style from two images using CNNs	TensorFlow, VGG19
🧠 Technical Article Summarizer	NLP-powered summary + critique of research articles	GPT, Hugging Face, Streamlit
🧬 Dog Breed Classifier	CNNs + Transfer Learning to identify dog breeds	TensorFlow, Keras, VGG16
🎧 Audio Summarizer	Converts audio to smart text summaries	OpenAI Whisper, FastAPI, AWS
📊 ML Benchmarking: Spark vs Scikit-learn	Runtime comparison on synthetic and real datasets	PySpark, Sklearn, Matplotlib

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✍️ Blogs & Writing

I write about machine learning, algorithms, and Pythonic patterns on Medium:

• 🧠 Deep Q-Network: A Backseat Gamer’s Best Friend
• ⚔️ SARSA: An Algorithm Not Named by Its Inventor
• 🐶 Dog Breed Classifier: CNNs + Transfer Learning
• 🐍 Generators: Python’s Laziest Functions
• 🧩 Python Finally Has Switch Statements

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🔨 Experience

Data Scientist II – Dish Media, NYC (2022 – 2024)

• Built predictive models for media sales optimization
• Deployed data pipelines and dashboards used in national campaigns
• Applied causal inference to analyze ad performance

Freelance Developer – Fiverr

• Delivered AI tools, backend APIs, and data apps using OpenAI, AWS, and Python
• Created Generative AI products like transcription assistants and article summarizers

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📜 Certifications

• AWS Cloud Practitioner (2024)
• Big Data Fundamentals with PySpark – DataCamp
• OpenAI API Development with Python – DataCamp
• AI Ethics Foundations – DataCamp

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🌐 Let’s Connect

• 📧 khayyon.parker@gmail.com
• 💼 LinkedIn
• 🧠 Medium
• 💻 GitHub

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“Build scalable systems. Make AI useful. Always be learning.”