MLOps Coffee Sessions #79 with Orr Shilon, Platform Thinking: A Lemonade Case Study.  

// Abstract
This episode is the epitome of why people listen to our podcast. It’s a complete discussion of the technical, organizational, and cultural challenges of building a high-velocity, machine learning platform that impacts core business outcomes.   

Orr tells us about the focus on automation and platform thinking that’s uniquely allowed Lemonade’s engineers to make long-term investments that have paid off in terms of efficiency. He tells us the crazy story of how the entire data science team of 20+ people was supported by only 2 ML engineers at one point, demonstrating the leverage their technical strategy has given engineers.  

// Bio
Orr is an ML Engineering Team Lead at Lemonade, currently working an ML Platform, empowering Data Scientists to manage the ML lifecycle from research to development and monitoring.  

Previously, Orr worked at Twiggle on semantic search, at Varonis on data governance, and at Intel. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Psychology from Tel Aviv University.  

Orr also enjoys trail running and sometimes races competitively.  

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