The Role of Infrastructure in ML Leveraging Open Source

Niels is a machine learning engineer and core maintainer of Flyte, an open-source ML orchestration tool, and author and maintainer of Pandera, a statistical typing and data testing tool for dataframes. His mission is to develop open-source tools for making data science and machine learning practitioners more productive.

He has a Masters in Public Health with a specialization in sociomedical science and public health informatics, and prior to that a background in developmental biology and immunology. His research interests include reinforcement learning, AutoML, creative machine learning, and fairness, accountability, and transparency in automated systems.

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.