MLOps Coffee Sessions #178 with Stephen Batifol, Building an ML Platform: Insights, Community, and Advocacy.

// Abstract
Discover how Wolt onboard data scientists onto the platform and build a thriving internal community of users. Stephen's firsthand experiences shed light on the importance of developer relations and how they contribute to making data scientists' lives easier. From top-notch documentation to getting-started guides and tutorials, the internal platform at Wolt prioritizes the needs of its users.

// Bio
From Android developer to Data Scientist to Machine Learning Engineer, Stephen has a wealth of software engineering experience at Wolt. He believes that machine learning has a lot to learn from software engineering best practices and spends his time making ML deployments simple for other engineers. Stephen is also a founding member and organizer of the MLOps.community Meetups in Berlin.

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Timestamps:
[00:00] Stephen's preferred coffee
[00:32] Takeaways
[01:35] Please like, share, and subscribe to our MLOps channels!
[03:00] Creating his own team!
[04:44] DevRel
[06:32] The door dash of Europe
[11:28] Data platform underneath
[12:55] Cellular core deployment uses open source
[14:21] Alibi
[16:08] Kafka
[16:59] Selling points to data scientists
[20:05] Language models concerns of data scientists
[22:12] Incorporating LLMs into the business
[23:55] Feedback from data scientists and end users
[27:37] User surveys
[30:11] Evangelizing and giving talks
[35:25] Tech Hub Culture in Berlin
[38:38] Kubernetes lifestyle
[42:55] Interacting with SREs
[45:28] Wrap up