Lessons on Data Teams Leadership

Luigi Patruno is a Data Scientist focused on helping companies utilize machine learning to create competitive advantages for their business. As the Director of Data Science at 2U, Luigi leads the development of machine learning models and MLOps infrastructure for predicting student success outcomes across 2U’s portfolio of university partners. As the Founder of MLinProduction.com, Luigi creates and curates content to educate machine learning practitioners about best practices for running resilient machine learning systems in production. Luigi has consulted on data science and machine learning at Fortune 500 companies and start-ups and has taught graduate level courses in Statistics and Big Data Engineering. He has a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics.

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.