Derek Nye

Data scientist and builder. I build the tools a job needs when the right one doesn't exist.

d3r3kn@gmail.com

Summary

Data scientist and builder with a background spanning healthcare, analytics, and organizational management. I also work as a video editor and compositor for a YouTube comedy channel and produce original AI-driven motion pieces end to end, from generation and compositing through edit and voice. When the software doesn't do what a job needs, I build the tool.

Experience

Video Editor, Compositor & Content Producer Jul 2025 to Present

Freelance / Self-Employed

YouTube comedy channel, editing and compositing

  • Edit and composite full episodes, including green-screen keying that places talent inside built environments.
  • Art direction on episode visuals: background selection, grade, and the look of composited elements.
  • Cut period-styled black-and-white sequences that hold a straight dramatic tone so the comedy lands on its own.

Original and client motion work

  • Produce AI-generated image and video content for online creators with a combined audience of over 1 million subscribers across multiple platforms.
  • Wrote, edited, composited and voiced a narrative short built from game footage. Used documentary grammar throughout: slow push-ins, archival grade, and cloned-voice narration, cut for vertical.
  • Built the visual identity for an original project: animated title treatments, character key art, and matching 9:16 social cuts with kinetic type.

Tools I Built

Skills

Post: editing, green-screen keying and compositing, motion graphics, color, sound sync, vertical and short-form formats.

AI: ComfyUI generation, voice cloning, AI-assisted content workflows.

Technical: FFmpeg, Electron, Python, JavaScript, batch automation.

Earlier Career

Data analyst and registered nurse. Built a fraud-detection platform and analyzed a 238-million-row claims dataset, and previously managed a 14-person remote team. Composites technician and liquid-rocket test crew at XCOR Aerospace, 2012 to 2015.

Education

MS, Data Science and MBA, Organizational Management, Eastern University, 2025.
BS, Nursing, National University, 2019.