MLOps Community 1 Year Anniversary! // Demetrios Brinkmann, David Aponte & Vishnu Rachakonda // MLOps Meetup #59

MLOps community meetup #59! Last Wednesday was the celebration of the MLOps Community 1 Year Anniversary! This has been a conversion of Demetrios Brinkmann, David Aponte and Vishnu Rachkonda!

//Abstract
Over the past year Demetrios, David and Vishnu have interviewed many of the top names in MLOps. During this time they have been able to apply these learnings at their jobs and see what works for them. In this one year anniversary meetup the three of them will discuss some of the most impacting advice they have received in the last year and how they have put it into practice.

//Bio
Demetrios Brinkmann
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.

David Aponte
David is one of the organizers of the MLOps Community. He is an engineer, teacher, and lifelong student. He loves to build solutions to tough problems and share his learnings with others. He works out of NYC and loves to hike and box for fun. He enjoys meeting new people so feel free to reach out to him!

Vishnu Rachakonda
Vishnu 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.

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Connect with Vishnu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrachakonda/

Timestamps:
[01:07] Big shoutout to everybody that's in these meetups!
[02:03] Big shoutout to Ivan Nardini for leading the Engineering Labs and to everyone who took part in the Engineering Labs!
[02:26] Big shoutout to Charlie You leading the Reading Group and to everyone who takes part in it!
[02:39] Big shoutout to everyone who takes part in the Office Hours!
[02:49] Big shoutout to the people who are helping with shaping the website!
[03:34] Thanks to all the people in Slack! Laszlo, Ariel, and people answering Slack questions.
[04:10] Big thanks to all our Sponsors FiddlerAI, Algorithmia, and Tecton!  
[06:13] David's Background
[08:08] Vishnu's Background
[09:55] High-Level Points
[15:57] Starting small
[24:05] Over-optimization - the root of all evil
[26:42] Keeping text deck open
[36:45] Missing from current MLOps tooling
[48:00] How to communicate in these data products?