EP57 - AskDeveloper Podcast - Artificial Intelligence at Scale with Mohamed El-Geish

AskDeveloper Podcast

???? ????? ?? AskDeveloper Podcast ?? ???? ????? ???? ???? ???? Chief Architect ?? ???? Voicera ? ?? ???? ????? ?? ?????? ??????? ??????? ? ?????? ??????? ?? ????? ???Microsoft ? LinkedIn ????? ?? ?????? ? ?????? ??????. Agenda Biography Chief Architect - Voicera Before joining Voicera, Mohamed was an engineering manager at LinkedIn working on feed personalization and relevance in addition to building a human-in-the-loop platform, and incubating venture bets by leading “moonshot” projects. Earlier at Microsoft, Mohamed led a team of engineers working on email delivery for Outlook.com and worked on a PaaS system that powered up online services with 400M+ users. Mohamed finds "ikigai" in machine learning, ultra-scale systems, debugging, and software craftsmanship. Stages 1- In Egypt? Any interesting thing? 2- Microsoft: scaling to hundreds of thousands of machines 3- LinkedIn: ML at scale, A/B testing, moving “faster”, microservices, standardized approach across the company, emphasizing craftsmanship 4- Voicera: moving faster, building from scratch, design choices, growing a team, AI-first approach, Tech 1- Why Go? 2- Computing with Data: the challenges of big data, 3- The skill gap between system engineering and data engineering/statisticians Advices • How did you find your way out of Egypt (A mandatory question for any Egyptian out of motherland)? • What drives you to learn more, and move forward? • What is it like to go from Corporate job to a Startup life? • Looking back, what would you have done differently? • Looking back, what would you wish to have known about or learned earlier? Misc • Your upcoming Book: http://ComputingWithData.com Mohamed El-Geish: http://www.elgeish.com