Autor: Max Pumperla

Hien Luu is a passionate AI/ML engineering leader who has been leading the Machine Learning platform at Door Dash since 2020. Hien focuses on developing robust and scalable AI/ML infrastructure for real-world applications. He is the author of  the book Beginning Apache Spark 3 and a speaker at conferences such as MLOps World, QCon (SF, NY, London), GHC 2022, Data+AI Summit, and more. Max Pumperla is a data science professor and software engineer located in Hamburg, Germany. He is an active open source contributor, maintainer of several Python packages, and author of machine learning books. He currently works as a software engineer at Anyscale. As head of product research at Pathmind Inc., he was developing reinforcement learning solutions for industrial applications at scale using Ray RLlib, Serve, and Tune. Max has been a core developer of DL4J at Skymind, and helped grow and extend the Keras ecosystem. Zhe Zhang has been leading the Ray Engineering team at Anyscale since 2020. Before that, he was at Linked In, managing the Big Data/AI Compute team (providing Hadoop/Spark/Tensor Flow as services). Zhe has been working on Open Source for about a decade. Zhe is a committer and PMC member of Apache Hadoop; and the lead author of the HDFS Erasure Coding feature, which is a critical part of Apache Hadoop 3.0. In 2020 Zhe was elected as a Member of the Apache Software Foundation.