whats up?¶
Currently working as an independent consultant. My use my expertise in recommendation systems to helps fast-growing startups build out their RAG applications. I am also the creator Instructor and Flight, and ML and data science educator.
Writing¶
Systems¶
- How to build a terrible RAG system
- Rag is more than embeddings
- Flight, a framework for building and executing pipelines
- LLM Observability is just plain observability
Clients¶
- Rewind AI: Rewind AI is a personal memory assistant that helps you remember, organize, and navigate your life.
- Naro: Naro sits in the background, using contextual clues to proactively select the right content and messaging for each customer conversation, from emails to meetings.
- Trunk Tools: Trunk Tools addresses the skilled labor shortage in construction, enhancing workforce productivity through AI-based tools.
- Modal Labs: Modal specializes in cloud functions, offering a platform for running generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, and more.
- Pydantic: Pydantic provides data validation and settings management using Python type annotations, enforcing type hints at runtime with user-friendly error handling.
- Weights & Biases: Wandb provides a platform for tracking machine learning experiments, offering tools for visualization, comparison, and collaboration in ML projects.
- New Computer: Dot by New Computer is an intelligent guide designed to help you remember, organize, and navigate your life.
- Kay.ai: Retrieve relevant context from the semantic web for your LLM apps with fully hosted embeddings.
Work History¶
- Sabbatical @ South Park Commons - 2023 - Present
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Stitchfix — 2016, 2018-2023
- Prev, Meta, ActionIQ, NYU, Meltwater - 2013-2018
- Computational Mathematics and Statistics @ University of Waterloo