Learning and Teaching MLOps Applications

Salwa Nur Muhammad is the Founder/CEO of FourthBrain, an AI/ML education startup backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund. FourthBrain trains Machine Learning engineers through a hybrid 2-3 month cohort based programs that combine accountability of weekly instructor-led live sessions with the flexibility of online content. Salwa founded FourthBrain after executive leadership roles at Udacity and Trilogy Education Services (acquired by 2U Inc). She has over 10 years of experience leveraging technology to develop scalable education programs at higher-ed institutions and edtech companies, building new business units, launching international programs, and hiring and training cross-functional teams.

At the moment Demetrios is immersing himself in Machine Learning by interviewing experts from around the world in the weekly MLOps.community meetups. Demetrios is constantly learning and engaging in new activities to get uncomfortable and learn from his mistakes. He tries to bring creativity into every aspect of his life, whether that be analyzing the best paths forward, overcoming obstacles, or building lego houses with his daughter.

Vishnu Rachakonda is the operations lead for the MLOps Community and co-hosts the MLOps Coffee Sessions podcast. He is a machine learning engineer at Tesseract Health, a 4Catalyzer company focused on retinal imaging. In this role, he builds machine learning models for clinical workflow augmentation and diagnostics in on-device and cloud use cases. Since studying bioengineering at Penn, Vishnu has been actively working in the fields of computational biomedicine and MLOps. In his spare time, Vishnu enjoys suspending all logic to watch Indian action movies, playing chess, and writing.