Just Build It! Tips for Making ML Engineering and MLOps Real

Data science and Machine Learning in an industrial setting are hard. The problems you have to solve are complex, the data landscape is challenging and you often don't have the freedom you would like to design experiments or create observational studies on real-world processes. This is before you even think about how to manage stakeholders, use cloud technologies, write software or wrap your solution up into a product that has to run predictions 24/7/365 and support business operations! In this talk, we reflect on many of the learnings Andy has gained through the past few years working in successful data science and machine learning engineering teams building operational products that create millions of dollars of value. In particular, Andy discusses how he thinks we can 'bootstrap' ML Engineering (MLEng) and MLOps practices in your organization.