MLOps from Scratch

Joel Grus is a Principal Engineer at Capital Group, where he leads a team that builds search, data, and machine learning products for the investment group. He is the author of the bestselling O'Reilly book Data Science from Scratch, the not-bestselling self-published book Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz, and the controversial JupyterCon talk "I Don't Like Notebooks." He recently moved to Texas after living in Seattle for a very long time.

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.