Jarek is an engineering manager growing the Google Cloud Platform and Warsaw Cloud teams.
After joining Google in 2009, Jarek started to build systems automating operation of the data centers, making them easier to use for Google developers, and improved the datacenter efficiency using historical workload data analysis. Then, Jarek & the team expanded the scope to Public Cloud, again with focus on efficiency and automation, delivering products like Cloud Autoscaler, Developer Console, Cloud Functions, Zync Render and many others. Jarek continues to focus on expanding the automation tools, making cloud more efficient and reliable. In 2014 - 2016, Jarek was also the Warsaw site director, focusing on quick growth of Warsaw Office to adapt to Cloud growth - growing the Warsaw engineering teams from 40 to 150. Since 2016, Jarek is focusing on our Cloud infrastructure, tools to manage the quickly growing Compute Engine and the underlying Datacenter infrastructure supporting all of Google Software.
Senior software developer and entrepreneur with a passion for machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval. Creator of Gensim – open source Python library for topic modelling (word2vec, LDA, LSI). Building practical solutions for businesses for over a decade. Founder of RaRe Technologies, an R&D consulting company. Life in SEA 💘 (🇰🇷).
Pythonista and founder of Kjamistan, a data consulting company in Berlin, Germany. She's been using Python since 2008 to solve and create problems. She helped form the first PyLadies chapter in Los Angeles in 2010, and co-authored an O'Reilly book along with several video courses on Python and data. She enjoys following the latest developments in machine learning, natural language processing and workflow automation infrastructure and is generally chatty and crabby on Twitter, where you can keep up with her latest shenanigans(@kjam).
Cam Davidson-Pilon has worked in many areas of applied mathematics, from evolutionary dynamics to statistical modeling of financial prices. His many contributions to the open source community include lifelines, an implementation of survival analysis in Python, and Bayesian Methods for Hackers, an open source book on Bayesian analysis. Educated at the University of Waterloo and at the Independent University of Moscow, he currently works at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada.