Setting up an ML Platform on GCP: Lessons Learned

Mefta Sadat is a Senior ML Engineer at Loblaw Digital. He has been here for over three years building the Data Engineering and Machine Learning platform. He focuses on productionizing ML services, tools and data pipelines. Previously Mefta worked at a Toronto based Video Streaming Company and designed and built the recommendation system for the Zoneify App from scratch. He received his MSc in Computer Science from Ryerson University focusing on research to mitigate risk in Software Engineering using ML.

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.