Shay
Kashif

Photographer · Filmmaker · Data Scientist

📷 Photography & Film ⌗ Data Science & CS
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Two ways of
seeing the world

Hey, I'm Shay! I split my time between framing shots and tinkering with computers. Photography taught me to find signal in noise; data science gave me the tools to prove it.

Whether I'm behind a lens or inside a spreadsheet, I'm chasing the same thing: a clear, honest picture of how things really work, inside and out.

Photography Filmmaking Cinematography Python Machine Learning Data Visualization Statistics
12+
Yrs shooting
20+
DS projects
5
Countries
Shay Kashif
Shay Kashif
Shay Kashif
Shay Kashif

Photography & Film

Golden Hour, Kreuzberg
Photo Essay · Berlin Golden Hour: Kreuzberg
Kodak Ultramax 400 2025
Hyde Park, London
Street · Colour Hyde Park, London
Kodak Ektar 100 2025
Winter at Exeter
Portrait · Friends Winter at Exeter
Fujifilm 400 2025
PEA Fall
People · Campus PEA Fall
Fujifilm 400 2025
SF & Marin
Landscape · City SF & Marin
Fujifilm 400 2025
Yosemite & Summer
Landscape · Summer Yosemite & Summer
Portra 400 2025

Finding patterns
in the noise

From statistical modeling to neural networks—I love building tools that make complex data legible. Especially interested in where computation meets human behavior and expression.

// Data Visualization · Urban Studies
Redlining's Lasting Effects — Interactive Oakland Map
Interactive map tracing how 1930s HOLC redlining grades shaped today's social vulnerability, displacement risk, and racial composition across Oakland's census tracts. Includes real-time ACS data, highway overlay histories, and a full community data dashboard.
Leaflet.js GeoJSON ACS Census OpenStreetMap
// Networking · Hardware
LoRa Radio: A Zero-Infrastructure, Democratized Internet
End-to-end encrypted, decentralized WAN using LoRa32 radio boards and Raspberry Pi. Explores LoRa as a $200–300 alternative to ISP-controlled internet—suitable for off-grid comms, disaster response, and privacy-first networking.
LoRa32 Raspberry Pi C++ Python
// Research · Finance
Equity Research — Merton Capital Partners
Collaborated on "The Affordable Housing Moonshot for the U.S." — conducted in-depth analysis of national and South Florida housing policy, affordability metrics, and investment landscape. Full-time analyst role.
Housing Policy Equity Research Financial Analysis

Skills & Stack

Python / NumPy
95%
PyTorch / ML
88%
Data Visualization
90%
Statistics
85%
Cinematography
92%
Film Editing
80%
Photography
96%

Writing

Published · The Exonian Research · Data Science What the Masthead Tells Us: Diversity & Representation in Academic Extracurriculars at Exeter A longitudinal study of ethnic and gender representation in The Exonian and DWDS leadership, using poll data, demographic inference, and social psychology research to explain the structural roots of inequity. 2025–26 Essay · The Exonian Searching for the American Dream A trip to the DMV becomes a meditation on civic duty, national identity, and what the American Dream actually means to a generation that's stopped believing in it. 2026 Personal Essay Men Don't Cry On stoicism, grief, and the silent training that taught me to never show emotion — and why I've started to question it. 2025 Personal Essay Free Cookies My grandfather haggled for free cookies everytime he went to Safeway. I used to be embarrassed by it whenever he dragged me along. Now I understand. 2024 Photo Essay · Berlin Golden Hour: Roaming The Summer Streets of Kreuzberg A midsummer evening walk through Kreuzberg — on counterculture, belonging, and the people who make a neighborhood theirs. Film, digital, and words. 2025 Creative Nonfiction · Berlin Before Sunrise My last morning in Berlin—an hour before the airport, a city still asleep, and a reckoning with innocence I didn't know I was carrying. 2024

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something

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