MLOps: A Leader's Perspective

Dr. Stephen Galsworthy is a data leader skilled at building high-performing teams and passionate about developing data-powered products with lasting impact for users, business and society.

Most recently he was the Chief Data and Product Officer at Quby, an Amsterdam based tech company offering data-driven energy services. He oversaw its transformation from a hardware-based business to a digital organisation with data and AI at its core. He put in place a central cloud-based data infrastructure and unified analytics platform to collect and take advantage of petabytes of IoT data. His team deployed real-time monitoring and energy insight services for 500k homes across Europe.

Stephen has a Master’s degree and PhD in Mathematics from Oxford University and has been leading data science teams since 2011.

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.