MLOps Build or Buy, Startup vs. Enterprise?

Aaron is a senior engineering manager in the infra organization at Slack, managing both the machine learning team and the real-time services team. In six years at Slack, most of which Aaron spent as an engineer, He worked on the search ranking, recommendation, spam detection, performance anomaly detection, and many other ML applications.

Aaron is also an advisor to Eppo, an experimentation platform. Prior to Slack, Aaroon worked as a data scientist at Airbnb, earned a Masters in statistics at the University of Chicago, and helped develop econometric models projecting the Obamacare rollout at Acumen LLC.

Katrina Ni is a Machine Learning Engineer in Slack ML Services Team where they build ML platforms and integrate ML, e.g. Recommend API, Spam Detection, across product functionalities. Prior to Slack, she is a Software Engineer in Tableau Explain Data Team where they build tools that utilize statistical models and propose possible explanations to help users inspect, uncover, and dig deeper into the viz.

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.