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Deshawn Rhone

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Hi, I'm Deshawn Rhone, a Senior Data Scientist based in Houston, TX. I build AI training and evaluation workflows, design LLM applications, and develop data pipelines that scale across teams.

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Hi, I’m Deshawn Rhone, a Senior Data Scientist based in Houston, TX. I build AI training and evaluation workflows, design LLM applications, and develop data pipelines that scale across teams. I have 6+ years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate complex data problems into measurable outcomes.

I’m passionate about data labeling, QA, automated testing, and reliable delivery in remote, fast-moving projects. I enjoy working with SMEs and stakeholders to translate business questions into actionable metrics, and I strive for clarity, reproducibility, and impact in every project.

  • 5 years' experience
  • Joined April 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services
  • Education

Work experience· 4 roles

Senior Data Scientist · CognizantApr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Wrote notes and reviewed guidelines for AI-generated responses; ran weekly calibrations with SMEs; improved label consistency using rubrics and disaggregation; built a RAG evaluation harness in Python/SQL; deployed a serverless AWS pipeline; performed statistical analysis and hypothesis testing on reviewer agreements; implemented margin/trust checks and reduced hallucinations in internal QA flows.

Data Scientist · CognizantMay 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr

Owned daily AI training operations for a text classification dataset; designed annotation tasks and labeling instructions; conducted QA sampling and calibration; built lightweight prompt engineering experiments and A/B testing to compare prompt quality; created SQL/ETL pipelines for data curation and labeling consistency.

Data Scientist · TMDS StaffingMay 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Owned data science/ML tasks for classification; built baseline models; performed cross-validation and hypothesis testing on campaign data; created and maintained data pipelines; generated model outputs and reporting for stakeholders.

IoT Engineer · Stratford UniversityJan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Education

Bachelor of Science · Stratford University2030 – 2022

Certifications and awards

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner2030 – 2026

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