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ML Infrastructure @spotify. Former Applied ML @vimeo. N-gram constructions resembling words and opinions are merely coincidental and solely mine. [He/Him]🎸🎶🤖

Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2019
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The talk @daikeshi an I did at #kubecon2019 is now up on youtube! If you want to see why & how we are providing @kubeflow as a centralized resource for our ML practitioners at @SpotifyEng, check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=m9XhsnNS…
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Massive layoffs at Spotify today 😞 While I was not layed off, I have many colleagues whom I would gladly work with again that will be looking for jobs. MLEs, EMs, PMs all with full scale ml or ml infra experience, if your team/company is looking for it.
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Please reach out if your team has opportunities for my colleagues and friends, you won't be disappointed in their work and passion 🖤
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wow, even more depressing to see our stock skyrocket over this
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the google cloud logs viewer is the worst. I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to just copy a multi line stack trace. I gave up and just sent a link. It has so many bells and whistles when 90% of the time I'd be better served from being able to just cat a log
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PS if anyone wants to help me get on bsky, HMU :)
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returning briefly to give yall another ML Ops meme
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I could not imagine the humiliation of having to do this after another 1.2k of my coworkers just left and I'd signed up (or was coerced due to immigration issues) to be "hardcore" for Elon
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Not to mention the hilarity of "salient lines of code".... Outside of really low level programming, great code isn't like a programming interview, it involves interactions across multiple systems, impactful abstractions, etc that cross numerous files....
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Ryan Clough, A Professional retweeted
I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.
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Was cleaning up my calendar and got this sad response from one of my meetings, RIP to much of Twitter's ML Platform team 💔
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This past year at @SpotifyEng I've started working as a solutions engineer within our ML Platform - Every quarter I work directly with 1 or 2 different teams to help them achieve their production ML goals by helping hem onboard, implement and sometimes augment our platform tools.
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If this sounds like something you'd be interested in doing, and have experience with implementing best practices for production ML pipelines, especially with Tensorflow and TFX, let me know (and ask questions), because we're now hiring a second "me" 😁 lifeatspotify.com/jobs/senio…
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The role is really fun because you get a wide view of all the different kinds of ML being done across Spotify (at least 30+ teams with ML projects!) and help shape he direction of the ML platform. We also do a lot of lighter consultations with more mature teams.
Why fight with infrastructure when you can fight with an abstracted DSL instead?
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Ryan Clough, A Professional retweeted
The dumbest thing I hear is “Facebook listens to your conversations” My coworkers were a bunch of risk-averse MBAs who’d never build something that cool. So why do you see ads for something you talked about? It’s because your life is predictable & the ad algorithm is that good.
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Wanted: Markdown editor with multi user comment/annotation/editing support, OR better markdown integration for Gdocs. Use case: writing technical documentation that needs interactive review from a team, but will eventually live in github/be processed and published from GH
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Converting a Gdoc to markdown is WAY too messy typically, especially if you are trying to include code snippets
ML Home is the glue between a lot of the pieces we build in the ML Platform at Spotify! It's still being actively developed (very much so) so if this interests you, there's also a full stack opening: lifeatspotify.com/jobs/full-…
Machine learning 🤖 is at the ❤️ of almost everything we do at @Spotify. But in order to scale up, we needed to design a new, efficient product to save time for our engineers. Here’s how we created #ML Home. engineering.atspotify.com/20…
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tried to cmd+shift+t in intellij to reopen a tab I didn't mean to close (that only works in browsers) and it completely crashed my IDE 😂
spent like an hour trying to fix a bash script before I realized $RANDOM is a reserved environment variable 😡
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