My name is Kevin Lyons, a member of the Class of 2020 at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have created this site to highlight my resume of academic, professional, and extracurricular accomplishments. A bit about me:

• Self-motivated, dedicated and intellectually curious student, athlete, volunteer and young professional eager to take advantage of the many opportunities offered in higher education

• Focused on building scalable architectures, data science and machine learning

• Strong history of volunteer work with proven leadership skills in community programs

• Passionate about learning and making a positive impact on my community

Massachusetts Institute of Technology '20

Cambridge, MA

• Pursuing B.S. in Computer Science

• 4.8 cumulative GPA (5.0 scale)

• Current CS (Fall 2018):

  • 6.804 Computational Cognitive Science

• For a list of all technical MIT courses I have taken to date, click here.

Weymouth High School '16

Weymouth, MA

• Valedictorian of 473 Students, 4.9 GPA

• National Honor Society Chapter President

• Senior captain of:

• Varsity Football

• Varsity Basketball

• Math Team

Uber Technologies

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer Intern (May 2018 - August 2018)

• Built distributed data pipelines on PySpark for batch processing of 300K+ driver trip records

• Integrated with machine learning model that achieved > 0.9 AUC in predicting driver behavior and pricing

• Updated Cassandra table schemas and Go microservices to fix a bug that affected 50K+ drivers in NYC

MIT Professional Education

Cambridge, MA

Teaching Assistant (December 2017 - Present)

• Coordinate coursework for professional-focused data science and analytics course with 1,000+ students

• Monitor course forum to respond to student questions and troubleshoot technical issues

• Assist students with understanding machine learning and data analytics fundamentals

Changing Places CityScience Research Team

Cambridge, MA

Research Software Engineer (September 2016 - August 2017)

• Assisted Master’s Thesis student seeking improved data-driven city space allocation for architects

• Optimized multi-agent Java simulation of 24 hr. real-time to 45 sec. run-time

• Generated train and test sets of 10K+ cities for supervised learning with JSON + Python data pipeline

• Utilized linear regression and shallow CNN for traffic volume and solar radiation predictions

LifeYield, LLC

Boston, MA

Full Stack Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2015 and 2016)

• Optimized all web service calls by 40% via improved XML serialization in C# backend

• Wrote and deployed log monitor in C# to connect cloud computing environment with Splunk + SQL

• Integrated load-balanced caching and distributed locking mechanism across replicated web instances

• Implemented front end enhancements and bug fixes for improved user interface, while keeping MVC structure intact

MIT Leadership Training Institute

Project Mentor for High School Students

• Participated in the same program when I was in high school

• Created community service initiaive in my town - computer science mentorship program for students in grades 3-8 in Spring 2015

• Selected to present my findings on campus

• Invited back to speak about the program after MIT acceptance

MIT Student Athlete Advisory Committee

Undergraduate Volunteer (September 2016 - Present)

• Help to organize several campus fundraisers, including Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend

• Provide input and feedback regarding the student-athlete experience at MIT

Resume

You can access a copy of my latest resume here.

Contact

The best way to reach me is via e-mail: [email protected].

I am also available on LinkedIn and GitHub.