Kevin Hartman

Our partnership with Kevin has been game-changing.

When Kevin first approached me with his capstone project I knew we had to take him up on his offer. In a matter of weeks he helped us build something massive that no one else has done.

Every aspect of the project we worked on together was more effective because of the rigorous data science that Kevin brought to the partnership. He has the skills that could be used for most anything. And he is a delight to work with!

From Joyce's feedback on Data Science Capstone:

I want to acknowledge how thorough this plan is. It is well researched, detailed, and well written. You have set the bar for future students.

I met Kevin in the UC Berkeley Data Science program where he took Deep Learning for NLP. This is one of the most advanced courses in the curriculum and Kevin excelled.

As a major component of this class students submit a Deep Learning research project to demonstrate their ability to contribute to the field. Kevin’s team produced a sophisticated adversarial training framework, FireBERT, for hardening BERT based algorithms against adversarial attacks. Kevin was responsible for the co-tuning strategy of this project. His contributions stood out not just for engaging in advanced DL techniques, but also for the level of engineering capabilities he demonstrated.

He created a repeatable process to set up and execute the adversarial TextFooler algorithm for the team. He was able to refactor the original code to use PyTorch Lightning to create consistently their classifier models and train in different gpu deployment environments. He also made contributions to their SWITCH logic utilizing base and abstract classes in Python and implementing a random Search routine for hyper-parameter optimization.

The work Kevin did in class showcases the sort of skills I often seek when hiring industry professionals, and I recommend him to hiring managers looking for ML engineers.

Kevin was a student in the Applied Machine Learning class I was teaching as part of Berkeley’s Masters in Information and Data Science program. From the start, it was clear that Kevin was a highly capable student, achieving top grades consistently. He was also passionate about the topic, increasing the quality of discussions in class with thoughtful questions that provoke me and his classmates to think about problems in a different way.

After graduating from the program, Kevin continued to pursue his passion in data science and machine learning, embarking on projects in data visualization, research on adversarial ML, (even publishing this work in a peer reviewed journal!) and applying what he learned in class to real world applications. He is clearly in the top 1% of all students that I’ve had the pleasure of teaching.

Kevin’s aptitude in data science and hustle in delivering on projects makes him an invaluable asset.

Kevin is a brilliant technologist and an exceptional leader, coach and mentor.

He consistently demonstrated a solid work ethic at Redpoint plus a dedication to success.

Kevin is self-motivated, methodical and very capable. It was a pleasure to have Kevin on my team and I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again.

I had the pleasure of working with Kevin during several discovery workshop sessions.

Kevin expertly worked with our clients to identify requirements and was flexible during the sessions to ensure the most relevant topics were discussed.

Thanks to Kevin's leadership during these sessions, the projects that followed were able to get off to a great start with clearly-defined requirements.

Kevin has strong technical skills and informed business acumen.

He is incredibly talented and persistent.

He's pleasant to work with and will be a strong addition to any team.

I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin when he was a student in my Machine Learning course at Berkeley in the Summer of 2020.

He not only excelled in the course, he continued to show his dedication to the work even after the course was finished, organizing a program wide course project review encouraging others to learn from each other's challenges and experiences.

A true team player!

Kevin was one of those students that you dream to have in your classes.

His thirst for knowledge and willingness to invest the time and hard work needed to master the most complicated concepts of my classes made him stand out clearly. He was a great driving force for the group, always eager to ask more questions, and share the answers he had worked on.

From his work in my class, it was evident that he is a very insight driven individual, which will define clear objectives in his work and will lead the group through the process of achieving them.

I taught Kevin Statistics for Data Science for the UC Berkeley Masters in Data Science program.

Even as a student I easily saw how professional and capable Kevin is. His is a very good R coder, he can think critically and break down mathematical concepts, and he is enthusiastic about collaborative work.

He works with a good measure of both ability and humility. This makes him effective as an analyst and data scientist. Kevin will be an asset to any team.

Kevin was a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the master's of data science program.

More specifically he was a student in my data engineering course, which included numerous skills, such as analysis, cloud-based computing, virtual machines, Docker containers, Linux, Python object-oriented programming, source code control, big data architecture (lambda), and massively parallel processing using Spark.

Kevin excelled in the course, going above and beyond the required elements.

I highly recommend, without reservation, Kevin Hartman.

Kevin is a consumate professional.

He is warm, and kind and exceptionally smart. His ability to listen, collaborate and seek solutions is not found often and his lifelong pursuit of learning (evidenced by his recent pursuit and accomplishments in Data Science) make him an incredible asset to any organization.

I'm proud to have worked with him and even more to call him a friend.