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Dânia Meira has been a senior expert and mathematician in the data field since 2012, with a Data Science career in Berlin startups where her work focused on ML for predictive analytics. She is also an experienced teacher and mentor. Dânia is the Director of #datalift and a Founding Member of the AI Guild. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

Bobby Pinero is the CEO and Co-Founder of Equals, a next-generation spreadsheet. He has worked in Finance, Analytics, and Data generally for the last few years. Previously he was the head of Finance and early employee number 8 at Intercom. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit datacast.substack.com/subscribe

Ran Romano is the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Qwak, where he is focused on building the next-generation ML infrastructure for ML teams of various sizes. Before Qwak, Ran led the Data and ML engineering groups at Wix.com - where he built Wix's internal ML Platform. Previous to that, he was a Technical Product Manager at the Israeli Intelligence corps. This is a public episode. If you'd like...

Astasia Myers is a Partner on Quiet Capital's enterprise team leading investments in ML, data infrastructure, open-source, developer tools, and security. She focuses on pre-seed, seed, and Series A. Prior to joining Quiet, Astasia was an investor in Redpoint's early-stage enterprise team, where she partnered with Dremio, LaunchDarkly, Solo.io , Preset, Hex, Cyral, among others. Before that, she wo...

Dr. Eric Daimler is an authority in Artificial Intelligence with over 20 years of experience in the field as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, technologist, and policy advisor. Eric has co-founded six technology companies that have done pioneering work in areas ranging from software systems to statistical arbitrage. As a Presidential Innovation Fellow during the Obama Administration, Eric help...

Tarush Aggarwal is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth, with over ten years of experience in the field. After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2011, he became the first data engineer on the analytics team at Salesforce.com . Data was in its infancy, and the log metric framework he built was critical in allowing Salesforce to...

Show Notes (02:00) Evan shared his upbringing, born and raised in a small coastal town on New Zealand’s North Island and later studied Software Engineering and Business. (03:55) Evan recalled working as a software solution architect at NEC Corporation back in New Zealand. (06:17) Evan talked about his decision to join Twilio in 2011 as one of the company’s early employees right after its Series B...

Show Notes (01:51) Nick shared his formative experiences of her childhood — moving between different schools, becoming interested in Math, and graduating from UCLA at the age of 19. (05:45) Nick recalled working as a quant analyst focused on emerging market debt at BlackRock . (09:57) Nick went over his decision to join Airbnb as a data scientist on their growth team in 2014. (12:17) Nick discusse...

Show Notes (01:29) Jeremiah reflected on his academic interest studying Statistics and Economics at Harvard . (05:33) Jeremiah recalled his four years as a market risk manager at King Street Capital Management . (07:18) Jeremiah explained how the training in risk management has made a huge impact in his career as a startup founder. (09:48) Jeremiah then founded his own consultancy Lowin Data Compa...

Show Notes (02:00) Shinji reflected on her academic experience studying Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo in the late 2000s. (04:19) Shinji shared valuable lessons learned from her undergraduate co-op experience with statistical analysis at Sun Microsystems , software engineering at Barclays Capital , and growth marketing at Facebook . (08:52) Shinji shared lessons learned from be...

Show Notes (02:27) Taimur reflected on his education studying Computer Science at UT Austin  in the early 2000s. (06:26) Taimur recalled his first job working as a quality assurance engineer at  Vignette . (08:47) Taimur went through his time with  Oracle  /  Siebel , where he transitioned from a purely technical engineering-focused role to more customer-facing functions. (13:44) Taimur reflected...

Show Notes (01:43) Leigh-Marie shared her formative experiences of her childhood — growing up in Alabama, solving math problems competitively, and going to Phillips Exeter Academy . (04:21) Leigh-Marie discussed her undergraduate experience at MIT studying Math with Computer Science . (06:41) Leigh-Marie went through her internship experience at Jane Street and Blend . (10:07) Leigh-Marie recalled...

Show Notes (01:47) Chen-Ping shared his upbringing growing up in Taiwan and going to boarding school in the US at the age of 14. (04:42) Chen-Ping got his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from RIT back in the early-to-mid 2000, in which he did academic research in computational neuroscience . (08:18) Chen-Ping walked through his MS thesis at RIT, designing and implementing a com...

Timestamps (02:00) Aarti shared her upbringing growing up in India and going to New York for undergraduate. (04:47) Aarti recalled her academic experience getting dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering at New York University . (07:17) Aarti shared details about her involvement with the ACM chapter and the Women in Computing club at NYU. (10:46) Aarti shared valuable lessons from...

Timestamps (02:14) Alberto briefly shared his upbringing and education at the Bayes Business School in London. (04:01) Alberto shared key learnings from his first entrepreneurial stint at 19 by developing a 3D printing product for ed-tech. (07:48) Alberto described his overall experience participating in Singularity University ’s Graduate Studies Program at the NASA Ames Research Park under a Goog...

Timestamps (01:55) Jessica shared the formative experiences of her upbringing — being born in a triplet with two other sisters and growing up in an immigrant family from Russia . (05:45) Jessica shared her experience being part of UC Berkeley’s first cohort of Data Science majors. (09:56) Jessica talked about her campus involvements with student-run organizations such as the Mobile Developers of B...

Timestamps (01:40) Julia shared the differences growing up in New York and moving to San Francisco. (03:05) Julia discussed her overall undergraduate experience at Stanford  — getting dual degrees in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering_._ (05:40) Julia went over her time as an Investment Banker at Qatalyst Partners  — notably working on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn. (09:11...

Timestamps (1:33) Einat described her experience getting Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph. D. degrees in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in the 90s and early 2000s. (4:01) Einat went over her Ph. D. thesis on approximation algorithms for clustering problems. (6:17) Einat discussed working as an algorithm developer for Compugen while being a Ph. D. student. (8:43) Einat went over projects she cont...

Timestamps (02:13) Prukalpa discussed her upbringing in India and studying Engineering at the Nanyang Tech University in Singapore. (03:52) Prukalpa shared the key learnings from her summer internship as an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs . (05:37) Prukalpa went over the seed idea for SocialCops (Read her Quora answer on the fundraising story). (11:27) Prukalpa gave a brief overview of...

Timestamps (01:58) Michel went over his education studying at EPITA — School of Engineering and Computer Science in France. (03:50) Michel mentioned his first US internship at Siemens Corporate Research as an R&D engineer. (05:48) Michel discussed the unique challenges of building systems to handle financial data through his engineering experience at FactSet Research Systems and Murex . (07:48) Mi...

Timestamps (02:03) Cindi briefly shared her early interest in writing and her decision to major in English at the University of Maryland in the mid-80s. (05:22) Cindi talked about her move to Zurich for a Business Systems Specialist role at Dow Chemical . (07:35) Cindi recalled the state of Business Intelligence tools and their adoption level in the enterprises during the mid-90s. (10:53) Cindi we...

Timestamps (01:30) Taivo shared briefly about his experience going through the Estonian K-12 system, as argued in his blog post written in Estonian . (05:34) Taivo described his undergraduate experience studying Computer Science at the University of Tartu and exposing to Machine Learning. (08:15) Taivo discussed his time interning at Skype and TransferWise . (10:01) Taivo went over his Master's De...

Timestamps (01:42) Gleb shared briefly about his upbringing and studying Economics in university in Russia. (04:15) Gleb discussed his move to the US to pursue a Master of Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University . (07:07) Gleb went over his summer internship as a Business Analyst at Autodesk . (08:40) Gleb shared the details of his project architecting data model/ETL pipelines...

Timestamps (01:59) Saishruthi talked about her upbringing, growing up in a rural town in India with no Internet connection and no computers. (05:50) Saishruthi discussed her undergraduate studying Electrical Engineering at Sri Sairam Engineering College in the early 2010s. (11:56) Saishruthi mentioned the projects and learnings during her two years working at Tata Consultancy Services as an instru...

Timestamps (01:44) Mohamed described his interest growing up in Egypt and studying Biomedical Engineering at Cairo University in the early 2000s. (04:22) Mohamed commented on his experience moving to the US to pursue an MBA degree and working in various software engineering roles. (07:35) Mohamed shared his experience authoring two books: (1) 3D Business Analyst: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Mas...