MLOps podcast #186 with Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-founder of Tecton and Josh Wills, Angel Investor, The Future of Feature Stores and Platforms.

// Abstract

Mike and Josh discuss creating templates and working at a detailed level, exploring Tecton's potential for sharing fraud and third-party features. They focus on technical aspects like data handling and optimizing models, emphasizing the significance of quality data for AI systems and the necessity for cohesive feature infrastructure in reaching production stages.

// Bio

Mike Del Balso

Mike is the co-founder of Tecton, where he is focused on building next-generation data infrastructure for Operational ML. Before Tecton, Mike was the PM lead for the Uber Michelangelo ML platform. He was also a product manager at Google, where he managed the core ML systems that power Google’s Search Ads business.

Josh Wills

Josh Wills is an angel investor specializing in data and machine learning infrastructure. He was formerly the head of data engineering at Slack, the director of data science at Cloudera, and a software engineer at Google.