MLOps Weekly Podcast

MLOps Weekly Podcast

by Simba Khadder

Season 1

MLOps Week 11: The Evolution of DevOps and the Birth of MLOps with Sam Ramji

This week on the MLOps Weekly Podcast, Simba sat down with Silicon Valley veteran and Chief Strategy Officer at DataStax, Sam Ramji to discuss the origins and success of DevOps, data computation vs cognition, & the importance of community-driven product development in MLOps.

MLOps Week 10: Vector Embeddings and AI-First Databases with Bob van Lujit

This week on the MLOps weekly podcast, Simba spoke with Bob van Lujit, CEO and Co-Founder of SeMi Technologies, creators of the open-source vector database, Weaviate. They discuss the power of embeddings in machine learning and the infrastructure needed to utilize them properly in production. Bob's Bio: Bob is the CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. He is a frequent speaker on open-source, digital technology, software business, and business philosophy. In addition to a TEDx talk, Bob has spoken worldwide at 100s of events on open source, business strategy, and start-ups.

MLOps Week 9: LinkedIn's Feature Store & MLOps Workflows with David Stein

Back from summer break with installment 9 of the MLOps Weekly Podcast! This week, Simba met with Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn's Machine Learning Infrastructure team, David Stein, to discuss the technical decisions and insights that led to LinkedIn's Feature Store, Feathr, and the importance of thoughtful API design when building MLOps workflows.

MLOps Week 8: The MLOps Mindset with Stefan Krawczyk

For the 8th installment of the podcast, Simba sits down with Stefan Krawczyk, who led the Model Lifecycle team at Stitchfix and has worked on data science teams at Linkedin and Nextdoor, to discuss his thought process when designing and deploying MLOps solutions. Links for listeners: - my class: https://www.getsphere.com/ml-engineering/mastering-model-deployment-and-inference?source=Instructor-LinkInPost-080222-stefan_mlopsweekly_podcast - Hamilton: https://github.com/stitchfix/hamilton - Fresh blog that helps complement the content in the podcast - https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2022/08/02/configuration-driven-ml-pipelines/

MLOps Week 7: Scaling AutoML with Nirman Dave

For week 7 of the MLOps Weekly Podcast, Simba sat down with Nirman Dave, Co-founder and CEO at Obviously AI, to discuss the practical and operational benefits of AutoML in production.

MLOps Week 6: A VC Breakdown of MLOps with James Alcorn

This week, Simba sat down with James Alcorn, Principal at Zetta Ventures, to discuss signals of success in MLOps platforms and his assessment template for MLOps founders.

MLOps Week 5: Exploring the MLOps Ecosystem with Chaoyu Yang

This week, Simba sat down with Co-Founder and CEO of BentoML, Chaoyu Yang, to discuss various sub-categories of MLOps providers, the prevalence of open-source platforms, and what advanced MLOps solutions should look like. Music provided by Chroma Sea: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UEQ4gyve4UpoAGUgV816o

MLOps Week 4: The Future of Data Infrastructure in MLOPs with Sam Partee

For our fourth episode, we sat down with Sam Partee, Principal Applied AI Engineer at Redis, to discuss the evolution of data tools in MLOps and their ideal future.

MLOps Week 3: MLOps From A Practitioner Turned VC with Leigh Marie Braswell, Principal at Founders Fund

In this week's episode, we sit down with Leigh Marie Braswell, Principal at Founders Fund, to discuss her experience as a PM at Scale AI, her transition from an MLOps practitioner to an investor, and her thoughts on the future of MLOps.

MLOps Week 2: Uber's Feature Store and Data Quality with Atindriyo Sanyal, Co-founder of Galileo

This week, we sit down with Atindriyo Sanyal to discuss feature stores at Uber and the importance of data quality.

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