Tecton Founder and CEO Mike Del Balso talks about what ML/AI use cases are core components generating Millions in revenue. Demetrios and Mike go through the maturity curve that predictive Machine Learning use cases have gone through over the past 5 years, and why a feature store is a primary component of an ML stack. // Bio Mike Del Balso is the CEO and co-founder of Tecton, where he’s building the industry’s first feature platform for real-time ML. Before Tecton, Mike co-created the Uber Miche...
Jun 06, 2025•49 min
Tricks to Fine Tuning // MLOps Podcast #318 with Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Research Scientist at Databricks . Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Prithviraj Ammanabrolu drops by to break down Tao fine-tuning—a clever way to train models without labeled data. Using reinforcement learning and synthetic data, Tao teaches models to evaluate and improve themselves. Raj explains how this works, where it shines (t...
Jun 05, 2025•56 min
Raza Habib, the CEO of LLM Eval platform Humanloop , talks to us about how to make your AI products more accurate and reliable by shortening the feedback loop of your evals. Quickly iterating on prompts and testing what works, along with some of his favorite Dario from Anthropic AI Quotes. // Bio Raza is the CEO and Co-founder at Humanloop. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from UCL, was the founding engineer of Monolith AI, and has built speech systems at Google. For the last 4 years, he has led...
Jun 03, 2025•53 min
Getting AI Apps Past the Demo // MLOps Podcast #319 with Vaibhav Gupta, CEO of BoundaryML. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract It's been two years, and we still seem to see AI disproportionately more in demos than production features. Why? And how can we apply engineering practices we've all learned in the past decades to our advantage here? // Bio Vaibhav is one of the creators of BAML and a YC alum. He ...
May 30, 2025•50 min
Demetrios and Mohan Atreya break down the GPU madness behind AI — from supply headaches and sky-high prices to the rise of nimble GPU clouds trying to outsmart the giants. They cover power-hungry hardware, failed experiments, and how new cloud models are shaking things up with smarter provisioning, tokenized access, and a whole lotta hustle. It's a wild ride through the guts of AI infrastructure — fun, fast, and full of sparks! Big thanks to the folks at Rafay for backing this episode — apprecia...
May 23, 2025•48 min
Demetrios, Sam Partee, and Rahul Parundekar unpack the chaos of AI agent tools and the evolving world of MCP (Model Context Protocol). With sharp insights and plenty of laughs, they dig into tool permissions, security quirks, agent memory, and the messy path to making agents actually useful. // Bio Sam Partee Sam Partee is the CTO and Co-Founder of Arcade AI. Previously a Principal Engineer leading the Applied AI team at Redis, Sam led the effort in creating the ecosystem around Redis as a vecto...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 5 min
AI in M&A: Building, Buying, and the Future of Dealmaking // MLOps Podcast #315 with Kison Patel, CEO and M&A Science at DealRoom . Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractThe intersection of M&A and AI, exploring how the DealRoom team developed AI capabilities and the practical use cases of AI in dealmaking. Discuss the evolving landscape of AI-driven M&A, the factors that make AI companies at...
May 16, 2025•56 min
AI, Marketing, and Human Decision Making // MLOps Podcast #313 with Fausto Albers, AI Engineer & Community Lead at AI Builders Club. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Demetrios and Fausto Albers explore how generative AI transforms creative work, decision-making, and human connection, highlighting both the promise of automation and the risks of losing critical thinking and social nuance. // Bio Faus...
May 14, 2025•50 min
MLOps with Databricks // MLOps Podcast #314 with Maria Vechtomova, MLOps Tech Lead | Founder at Ahold Delhaize | Marvelous MLOps. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract The world of MLOps is very complex as there is an endless amount of tools serving its purpose, and it is very hard to get your head around it. Instead of combining various tools and managing them, it may make sense to opt for a platform inste...
May 13, 2025•53 min
Making AI Reliable is the Greatest Challenge of the 2020s // MLOps Podcast #312 with Alon Bochman, CEO of RagMetrics. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter Huge shout-out to @RagMetrics for sponsoring this episode! // Abstract Demetrios talks with Alon Bochman, CEO of RagMetrics, about testing in machine learning systems. Alon stresses the value of empirical evaluation over influencer advice, highlights the need for ev...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Behavior Modeling, Secondary AI Effects, Bias Reduction & Synthetic Data // MLOps Podcast #311 with Devansh Devansh, Head of AI at Stealth AI Startup. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractOpen-source AI researcher Devansh Devansh joins Demetrios to discuss grounded AI research, jailbreaking risks, Nvidia’s Gretel AI acquisition, and the role of synthetic data in reducing bias. They explore why determini...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 2 min
GraphBI: Expanding Analytics to All Data Through the Combination of GenAI, Graph, & Visual Analytics // MLOps Podcast #310 with Paco Nathan, Principal DevRel Engineer at Senzing & Weidong Yang, CEO of Kineviz. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractExisting BI and big data solutions depend largely on structured data, which makes up only about 20% of all available information, leaving the vast majority...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 14 min
AI Data Engineers - Data Engineering after AI // MLOps Podcast #309 with Vikram Chennai, Founder/CEO of Ardent AI. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractA discussion of Agentic approaches to Data Engineering. Exploring the benefits and pitfalls of AI solutions and how to design product-grade AI agents, especially in data. // BioSecond Time Founder. 5 years building Deep learning models. Currently, AI Data En...
Apr 25, 2025•50 min
I am once again asking "What is MLOps?" // MLOps Podcast #308 with Oleksandr Stasyk, Engineering Manager, ML Platform of Synthesia. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractWhat does it mean to MLOps now? Everyone is trying to make a killing from AI, everyone wants the freshest technology to show off as part of their product. But what impact does that have on the "journey of the model". Do we still think about ...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 7 min
How Sama is Improving ML Models to Make AVs Safer // MLOps Podcast #307 with Duncan Curtis, SVP of Product and Technology at Sama. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Between Uber’s partnership with NVIDIA and speculation around the U.S.'s President Donald Trump enacting policies that allow fully autonomous vehicles, it’s more important than ever to ensure the accuracy of machine learning models. Yet, the...
Apr 18, 2025•46 min
Agents of Innovation: AI-Powered Product Ideation with Synthetic Consumer Testing // MLOps Podcast #306 with Luca Fiaschi, Partner of PyMC Labs. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Traditional product development cycles require extensive consumer research and market testing, resulting in lengthy development timelines and significant resource investment. We've transformed this process by building a distrib...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Real-Time Forecasting Faceoff: Time Series vs. DNNs // MLOps Podcast #305 with Josh Xi, Data Scientist at Lyft. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract In real-time forecasting (e.g. geohash level demand and supply forecast for an entire region), time series-based forecasting methods are widely adopted due to their simplicity and ease of training. This discussion explores how Lyft uses time series forecasting...
Apr 11, 2025•54 min
We're All Finetuning Incorrectly // MLOps Podcast #304 with Tanmay Chopra, Founder & CEO of Emissary. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Finetuning is dead. Finetuning is only for style. We've all heard these claims. But the truth is we feel this way because all we've been doing is extended pretraining. I'm excited to chat about what real finetuning looks like - modifying output heads, loss functions...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 1 min
From Shiny to Strategic: The Maturation of AI Across Industries // MLOps Podcast #303 with David Cox, VP of Data Science; Assistant Director of Research at RethinkFirst; Institute of Applied Behavioral Science. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Shiny new objects are made available to artificial intelligence(AI) practitioners daily. For many who are not AI practitioners, the release of ChatGPT in 2022 wa...
Apr 07, 2025•41 min
Streaming Ecosystem Complexities and Cost Management // MLOps Podcast #302 with Rohit Agrawal, Director of Engineering at Tecton. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Demetrios talks with Rohit Agrawal, Director of Engineering at Tecton, about the challenges and future of streaming data in ML. Rohit shares his path at Tecton and insights on managing real-time and batch systems. They cover tool fragmentatio...
Apr 04, 2025•49 min
Building Trust Through Technology: Responsible AI in Practice // MLOps Podcast #301 with Rafael Sandroni, Founder and CEO of GardionAI. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractRafael Sandroni shares key insights on securing AI systems, tackling fraud, and implementing robust guardrails. From prompt injection attacks to AI-driven fraud detection, we explore the challenges and best practices for building safer A...
Apr 01, 2025•41 min
Beyond the Matrix: AI and the Future of Human Creativity // MLOps Podcast #300 with Fausto Albers, AI Engineer & Community Lead at AI Builders Club. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Fausto Albers discusses the intersection of AI and human creativity. He explores AI’s role in job interviews, personalized AI assistants, and the evolving nature of human-computer interaction. Key topics include AI-driv...
Mar 30, 2025•55 min
Building Trust Through Technology: Responsible AI in Practice // MLOps Podcast #299 with Animesh Singh, Executive Director, AI Platform and Infrastructure of LinkedIn. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractAnimesh discusses LLMs at scale, GPU infrastructure, and optimization strategies. He highlights LinkedIn's use of LLMs for features like profile summarization and hiring assistants, the rising cost of GPUs...
Mar 28, 2025•59 min
Building Trust Through Technology: Responsible AI in Practice // MLOps Podcast #298 with Allegra Guinan, Co-founder of Lumiera. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractAllegra joins the podcast to discuss how Responsible AI (RAI) extends beyond traditional pillars like transparency and privacy. While these foundational elements are crucial, true RAI success requires deeply embedding responsible practices into ...
Mar 25, 2025•47 min
I Let An AI Play Pokémon! - Claude plays Pokémon Creator // MLOps Podcast #295 with David Hershey, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractDemetrios chats with David Hershey from Anthropic's Applied AI team about his agent-powered Pokémon project using Claude. They explore agent frameworks, prompt optimization vs. fine-tuning, and AI's growing role in software, legal, an...
Mar 21, 2025•47 min
From Rules to Reasoning Engines // MLOps Podcast #297 with George Mathew, Managing Director at Insight Partners. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractGeorge Mathew (Insight Partners) joins Demetrios to break down how AI and ML have evolved over the past few years and where they’re headed. He reflects on the major shifts since his last chat with Demetrios, especially how models like ChatGPT have changed the ...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min
GenAI Traffic: Why API Infrastructure Must Evolve... Again // MLOps Podcast #295 with Erica Hughberg, Community Advocate at Tetrate.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min
The Unbearable Lightness of Data // MLOps Podcast #295 with Rohit Krishnan, Chief Product Officer at bodo.ai.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractRohit Krishnan, Chief Product Officer at Bodo.AI, joins Demetrios to discuss AI's evolving landscape. They explore interactive reasoning models, AI's impact on jobs, scalability challenges, and the path to AGI. Rohit also shares insights on Bodo.AI’s open-source m...
Mar 11, 2025•54 min
Kubernetes, AI Gateways, and the Future of MLOps // MLOps Podcast #294 with Alexa Griffith, Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Alexa shares her journey into software engineering, from early struggles with Airflow and Kubernetes to leading open-source projects like the Envoy AI Gateway. She and Demetrios discuss AI model deployment, tooling differences across tech ro...
Mar 07, 2025•52 min
Future of Software, Agents in the Enterprise, and Inception Stage Company Building // MLOps Podcast 293 with Eliot Durbin, General Partner at Boldstart Ventures.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractKey lessons for founders that are thinking about or starting their companies. 15 years of inception stage investing from how data science companies like Yhat went to market in 2013-14 and how that's evolved, to b...
Mar 04, 2025•54 min
