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Hi! I am a multidisciplinary professional with a varied background in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, and Data Science. My journey has taken me through academia and into cutting-edge tech environments where I focus on ethical technology and innovative solutions. I love mentoring and helping others navigate complex technical concepts.…

Breon Overton

AI Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Ethics Consultant

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Hi! I am a multidisciplinary professional with a varied background in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, and Data Science. My journey has taken me through academia and into cutting-edge tech environments where I focus on ethical technology and innovative solutions. I love mentoring and helping others navigate complex technical concepts.…

Available to hire

Hi! I am a multidisciplinary professional with a varied background in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, and Data Science. My journey has taken me through academia and into cutting-edge tech environments where I focus on ethical technology and innovative solutions. I love mentoring and helping others navigate complex technical concepts.

Skills

Data Science

Experience Level

Data Science

Expert

Language

English

Fluent

Dutch

Fluent

French

Advanced

Spanish; Castilian

Intermediate

Japanese

Beginner

Work Experience

Lead Machine Learning Engineer at OpenAI

January 1, 2021 - November 12, 2025

Developed scalable LLM pipelines for multilingual sentiment analysis. Spearheaded alignment research for GPT-based systems across low-resource languages. Mentored junior researchers and published 3 co-authored papers in top-tier journals.

Senior Data Scientist at Amazon AWS AI Labs

January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2021

Designed predictive models for customer retention and fraud detection. Created an automated anomaly detection system that improved efficiency by 23%. Delivered internal workshops on explainable AI and model bias mitigation.

Natural Language Processing Researcher at Allen Institute for AI

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019

Worked on coreference resolution and semantic parsing for open-domain questions. Published in ACL and EMNLP on unsupervised learning for text summarization.

Adjunct Professor – Computational Linguistics at University of Amsterdam

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017

Taught graduate-level courses on NLP, Parsing Algorithms, and Machine Translation. Developed course material on neural sequence models and ethical data annotation.

Software Engineer (AI Systems) at Google

January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2015

Contributed to the launch of Google Translate's neural architecture revamp and built scalable APIs integrating text normalization and tokenization modules.