Machine Learning at Atlassian

Geoff is a Principal Data Scientist at Atlassian, the software company behind Jira, Confluence & Trello. He works with the product teams and focuses on delivering smarter in-product experiences and recommendations to our millions of active users by using machine learning at scale. Prior to this, he was in the Customer Support & Success division, leveraging a range of NLP techniques to automate and scale the support function.

Prior to Atlassian, Geoff has applied data science methodologies across the retail, banking, media, and renewable energy industries. He began his foray into data science as a research astrophysicist, where he studied astronomy from the coldest & driest location on Earth: Antarctica.

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.