Data Science

Datacast Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi

Datacast Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi

Sakib Dadi is a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners in their San Francisco office, where he primarily focuses on early-stage investments in developer platforms, data products, and software infrastructure. He has been involved with Bessemer’s investments, including Prefect, Coiled, Arcion, Periscope Data, Okera, Guild Education, and Sila Nanotechnologies. Before joining Bessemer, Sakib worked in product at Viagogo, an international marketplace for buying and selling tickets for live events.

Datacast Episode 120: Next-Generation Experimentation, Statistics Engineering, and The Modern Growth Stack with Chetan Sharma

Datacast Episode 120: Next-Generation Experimentation, Statistics Engineering, and The Modern Growth Stack with Chetan Sharma

Chetan Sharma is the Founder & CEO of Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform that is designed to spur entrepreneurial culture.

As the 4th data scientist at Airbnb and an early data scientist at companies like Webflow, Chetan has been focused on the maturity curve of growth-stage companies and how to establish data as a central stakeholder in decision-making. He previously led the team that developed Airbnb's knowledge repo and has led data teams focused on production machine learning and instrumentation integrity.

Datacast Episode 111: Astrophysics, Visualization Recommendation, and Scalable Data Science with Doris Lee

Datacast Episode 111: Astrophysics, Visualization Recommendation, and Scalable Data Science with Doris Lee

Doris Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Ponder, a startup delivering scalable, enterprise-ready pandas that improve the productivity of data teams. She graduated with her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley RISE Lab in 2021, where she developed data science tools to accelerate insight discovery.

Datacast Episode 106: Advancing AI Adoption with Dania Meira

Datacast Episode 106: Advancing AI Adoption with Dania Meira

Dânia Meira has been a senior expert and mathematician in the data field since 2012, with a Data Science career in Berlin startups where her work focused on ML for predictive analytics. She is also an experienced teacher and mentor. Dânia is the Director of #datalift and a Founding Member of the AI Guild.

Datacast Episode 102: Early-Stage Investing, Modern Venture Capital, and Trends in Enterprise Infrastructure with Astasia Myers

Datacast Episode 102: Early-Stage Investing, Modern Venture Capital, and Trends in Enterprise Infrastructure with Astasia Myers

Astasia Myers is a Partner on Quiet Capital's enterprise team leading investments in ML, data infrastructure, open-source, developer tools, and security. She focuses on pre-seed, seed, and Series A.

Prior to joining Quiet, Astasia was an investor in Redpoint's early-stage enterprise team, where she partnered with Dremio, LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Preset, Hex, Cyral, among others. Before that, she worked at Cisco Investments, where she focused on cloud-infrastructure M&A and investments, including Cohesity, Datos IO, Elastifile, Guardicore, Springpath, and the funding of internal stealth projects.

Datacast Episode 97: Escaping Poverty, Embracing Digital Learning, Benchmarking ML Systems, and Advancing Data-Centric AI with Cody Coleman

Datacast Episode 97: Escaping Poverty, Embracing Digital Learning, Benchmarking ML Systems, and Advancing Data-Centric AI with Cody Coleman

Cody Coleman is the Founder and CEO of Coactive AI. He is also a co-creator of DAWNBench and MLPerf and a founding member of MLCommons. His work spans from performance benchmarking of hardware and software systems to computationally efficient methods for active learning and core-set selection. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where Professors Matei Zaharia and Peter Bailis advised him, and an MEng and BS from MIT.

Datacast Episode 96: Data Science Training and The Power of Education with Merav Yuravlivker

Datacast Episode 96: Data Science Training and The Power of Education with Merav Yuravlivker

Merav Yuravlivker is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Society. With over ten years of experience in instructional design, training, and teaching, she started her career teaching elementary special education in NYC public schools through the Teach for America program. She went on to join the International Baccalaureate Organization, where she developed deep expertise in online training, assessments, and recruitment. She also taught as a Kaplan GRE instructor, where she ranked as one of their top 10% instructors based on student surveys.

Merav found her passion for education and knew that she wanted to make an impact on an even larger scale. She recognized the importance of data literacy and began her data journey by learning how to program and design best practices for students during her free time. Six months later, she left her full-time job to focus on building Data Society along with her co-founders. Over the past seven years, she and her team have developed customized, industry-tailored data science training solutions that educate, equip and empower an organization’s workforce to achieve its goals and expand its impact.

Datacast Episode 93: Open-Source Development, Human-Centric AI, and Modern ML Infrastructure with Ville Tuulos

Datacast Episode 93: Open-Source Development, Human-Centric AI, and Modern ML Infrastructure with Ville Tuulos

Ville Tuulos has been developing tools and infrastructure for data science and machine learning for over two decades. At Netflix, he led the machine learning infrastructure team. Currently, he is the CEO and co-founder of Outerbounds - where he’s building the modern, human-centric ML infrastructure stack, continuing the open-source product called Metaflow that he developed and managed during his Netflix days.

Datacast Episode 91: Collaborative Data Workspace, The Sharing Gap, and Engineering Management with Caitlin Colgrove

Datacast Episode 91: Collaborative Data Workspace, The Sharing Gap, and Engineering Management with Caitlin Colgrove

Caitlin Colgrove is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hex Technologies, a collaborative data workspace for building and sharing data projects using SQL and Python. Caitlin has spent her career as a software engineer building data analytics tools, first at Palantir and then later at startups including Remix and Hex. As a CTO, her focus has expanded from purely technology to growing and developing diverse and inclusive engineering teams.

Datacast Episode 87: Product Experimentation, ML Platforms, and Metrics Store with Nick Handel

Datacast Episode 87: Product Experimentation, ML Platforms, and Metrics Store with Nick Handel

Nick Handel is Transform's CEO and Co-Founder. Before Transform, Nick was Head of Data at Branch International in the micro-lending space.

Before Branch, Nick held a variety of roles at Airbnb, both as a Data Scientist & Product Manager. He was on the Growth team that founded the Experiences product and the Data Platform team. His work includes launching Airbnb's ML platform, Zipline, building the company's data science team, helping with the company's initial international expansion, and leading the data science team that launched Airbnb's Trips product.

Before joining Airbnb, Nick was a research economist at BlackRock. He is an avid trail runner, climber, skier, and adventurer, much of the time with his dog Huckleberry.