Demetrios

MLOps.community

Relaxed Conversations around getting AI into production, whatever shape that may come in (agentic, traditional ML, LLMs, Vibes, etc)

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Demetrios

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Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Claude Plays Pokémon - A Conversation with the Creator // David Hershey // #297 21.03.2025

I Let An AI Play Pokémon! - Claude plays Pokémon Creator // MLOps Podcast #297 with David Hershey, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Demetrios chats with David Hershey from Anthropic's Applied AI team about his agent-powered Pokémon project using Claude. They ex...

From Rules to Reasoning Engines // George Mathew // #297 18.03.2025

From Rules to Reasoning Engines // MLOps Podcast #297 with George Mathew, Managing Director at Insight Partners. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract George Mathew (Insight Partners) joins Demetrios to break down how AI and ML have evolved over the past few years and where they’re headed. He reflects on the...

GenAI Traffic: Why API Infrastructure Must Evolve... Again // Erica Hughberg // #296 14.03.2025

GenAI Traffic: Why API Infrastructure Must Evolve... Again // MLOps Podcast #296 with Erica Hughberg, Community Advocate at Tetrate. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract The way we handle API traffic is broken for GenAI. We've spent years optimizing for microservices—fast, stateless, and lightweight API...

The Unbearable Lightness of Data // Rohit Krishnan // #295 11.03.2025

The Unbearable Lightness of Data // MLOps Podcast #295 with Rohit Krishnan, Chief Product Officer at bodo.ai. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Rohit Krishnan, Chief Product Officer at Bodo. AI, joins Demetrios to discuss AI's evolving landscape. They explore interactive reasoning models, AI's imp...

Kubernetes, AI Gateways, and the Future of MLOps // Alexa Griffith // #294 07.03.2025

Kubernetes, AI Gateways, and the Future of MLOps // MLOps Podcast #294 with Alexa Griffith, Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Alexa shares her journey into software engineering, from early struggles with Airflow and Kubernetes to leading open-source projects like the...

Future of Software, Agents in the Enterprise, and Inception Stage Company Building // Eliot Durbin // #293 04.03.2025

Future of Software, Agents in the Enterprise, and Inception Stage Company Building // MLOps Podcast 293 with Eliot Durbin, General Partner at Boldstart Ventures. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Key lessons for founders who are thinking about or starting their companies. 15 years of inception stage inves...

The Agent Exchange: Practitioner Insights 03.03.2025

Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Five, Dmitri Jarnikov, Chiara Caratelli, and Steven Vester join Demetrios to explore AI agents in e-commerce. They discuss the trade-offs between generic and specialized agents, with Dmitri noting the need for a balance between scalability and precision. Chiara highlights how agents can dynamically blend both approaches, while Steven predicts...

Talk to Your Data: The SQL Data Analyst 28.02.2025

In Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Four , Donné Stevenson and Paul van der Boor break down the deployment of a Token Data Analyst agent at Prosus—why, how, and what worked. They discuss the challenges of productionizing the agent, from architecture to mitigating LLM overconfidence, key design choices, the role of pre-checks for clarity, and why they opted for simpler text-b...

Getting to Grips with Web Agents 26.02.2025

Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Three explores the concept of web agents—AI-powered systems that interact with the web as humans do, navigating browsers instead of relying solely on APIs. The discussion covers why web agents emerge as a natural step in AI evolution, their advantages over API-based systems, and their potential impact on e-commerce and automation. The convers...

The Challenge with Voice Agents 22.02.2025

In Agents in Production Series - Episode Two , Demetrios, Paul, and Floris explore the latest in Voice AI agents. They discuss real-time voice interactions, OpenAI's real-time Voice API, and real-world deployment challenges. Paul shares insights from iFood’s voice AI tests in Brazil, while Floris highlights technical hurdles like turn detection and language processing. The episode covers broad...

The Agent Landscape - Lessons Learned Putting Agents Into Production 20.02.2025

In Agents in Production Series - Episode One , Demetrios chats with Paul van der Boor and Floris Fok about the real-world challenges of deploying AI agents across  @ProsusGroup  of companies. They break down the evolution from simple LLMs to fully interactive systems, tackling scale, UX, and the harsh lessons from failed projects. Packed with insights on what works (and what doesn’t), this episode...

Evolving Workflow Orchestration // Alex Milowski // #291 14.02.2025

Alex Milowski  is a researcher, developer,  entrepreneur , mathematician, and  computer scientist . Evolving Workflow Orchestration // MLOps Podcast #291 with Alex Milowski, Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist. // Abstract There seems to be a shift from workflow languages to code, mostly annotation Python - happening and getting us. It is a symptom of how complex workflow orchestration has gotten....

Insights from Cleric: Building an Autonomous AI SRE // Willem Pienaar // #290 11.02.2025

Willem Pienaar is the Co-Founder and CTO of  Cleric . He previously worked at Tecton as a Principal Engineer. Willem Pienaar attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. Insights from Cleric: Building an Autonomous AI SRE // MLOps Podcast #289 with Willem Pienaar, CTO & Co-Founder of Cleric. // Abstract In this MLOps Community Podcast episode, Willem Pienaar, CTO of Cleric, breaks down how th...

Robustness, Detectability, and Data Privacy in AI // Vinu Sankar Sadasivan // #289 07.02.2025

Vinu Sankar Sadasivan is a CS PhD ... Currently, I am working as a full-time  Student Researcher at Google DeepMind  on jailbreaking multimodal AI models. Robustness, Detectability, and Data Privacy in AI // MLOps Podcast #289 with Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Student Researcher at Google DeepMind. // Abstract Recent rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made it widely applicable acros...

AI & Aliens: New Eyes on Ancient Questions // Richard Cloete // #288 04.02.2025

Richard Cloete is a computer scientist and a Laukien-Oumuamua Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University. He is a member of the Galileo Project working under the supervision of Professor Avi, having recently held a postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge, UK. AI & Aliens: New Eyes on Ancient Questions // MLOps Podcast #288 with Richard Cloete,...

Real LLM Success Stories: How They Actually Work // Alex Strick van Linschoten // #287 31.01.2025

A software engineer based in Delft, Alex Strick van Linschoten, recently built Ekko, an open-source framework for adding real-time infrastructure and in-transit message processing to web applications. With years of experience in Ruby, JavaScript, Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker, I bring a versatile skill set to the table. I hold a PhD in History, have authored books on Afghanistan, and currently w...

Navigating Machine Learning Careers: Insights from Meta to Consulting // Ilya Reznik // #286 27.01.2025

In his 13 years of software engineering, Ilya Reznik has specialized in commercializing machine learning solutions and building robust ML platforms. He's held technical lead and staff engineering roles at premier firms like Adobe, Twitter, and Meta. Currently, Ilya channels his expertise into his travel startup, Jaunt, while consulting and advising emerging startups. Navigating Machine Learnin...

Collective Memory for AI on Decentralized Knowledge Graph // Tomaž Levak // #285 24.01.2025

Tomaž Levak is the Co-founder and CEO of  Trace Labs  –  OriginTrail  core developers. OriginTrail is a  web3  infrastructure project combining a decentralized knowledge graph (DKG) and  blockchain  technologies to create a neutral, inclusive ecosystem. Collective Memory for AI on Decentralized Knowledge Graph // MLOps Podcast #285 with Tomaz Levak, Founder of Trace Labs, Core Developers of Origin...

Efficient Deployment of Models at the Edge // Krishna Sridhar // #284 17.01.2025

Krishna Sridhar is an experienced engineering leader passionate about building wonderful products powered by machine learning. Efficient Deployment of Models at the Edge // MLOps Podcast #284 with Krishna Sridhar, Vice President of Qualcomm. Big shout-out to Qualcomm for sponsoring this episode! // Abstract Qualcomm® AI Hub helps to optimize, validate, and deploy machine learning models on-device...

Real World AI Agent Stories // Zach Wallace // #283 15.01.2025

Machine Learning, AI Agents, and Autonomy // MLOps Podcast #283 with Zach Wallace, Staff Software Engineer at Nearpod Inc. // Abstract Demetrios chats with Zach Wallace, engineering manager at Nearpod, about integrating AI agents in e-commerce and edtech. They discuss using agents for personalized user targeting, adapting AI models with real-time data, and ensuring efficiency through clear task de...

Machine Learning, AI Agents, and Autonomy // Egor Kraev // #282 08.01.2025

For three years, Egor has been bringing the power of AI to bear at Wise , across domains as varied as trading algorithms for Treasury, fraud detection, experiment analysis, causal inference, and, recently, the numerous applications unlocked by large language models. Open-source projects initiated and guided by Egor include wise-pizza, causaltune, and neural-lifetimes, with more on the way. Machine...

Re-Platforming Your Tech Stack // Michelle Marie Conway & Andrew Baker // #281 03.01.2025

Re-Platforming Your Tech Stack // MLOps Podcast #281 with Michelle Marie Conway, Lead Data Scientist at Lloyds Banking Group and Andrew Baker, Data Science Delivery Lead at Lloyds Banking Group. // Abstract Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to embrace the power of cloud and unlock the opportunities that it provides. Andrew, Michelle, and their MLOps team have been on a journey over the last 12...

Holistic Evaluation of Generative AI Systems // Jineet Doshi // #280 23.12.2024

Jineet Doshi is an award-winning Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, and Leader at Intuit with over 7 years of experience. He has a proven track record of leading successful AI projects and building machine-learning models from design to production across various domains, which have impacted 100 million customers and significantly improved business metrics, leading to millions of dollars of impa...

Unleashing Unconstrained News Knowledge Graphs to Combat Misinformation // Robert Caulk // #279 20.12.2024

Robert Caulk is responsible for directing software development, enabling research, coordinating company projects, quality control, proposing external collaborations, and securing funding. He believes firmly in open-source, having spent 12 years accruing over 1000 academic citations building open-source software in domains such as machine learning, image analysis, and coupled physical processes. He...

LLM Distillation and Compression // Guanhua Wang // #278 17.12.2024

Guanhua Wang  is  a Senior Researcher  in DeepSpeed Team at  Microsoft . Before  Microsoft , Guanhua earned his Computer Science PhD from UC Berkeley. Domino: Communication-Free LLM Training Engine // MLOps Podcast #278 with Guanhua "Alex" Wang, Senior Researcher at Microsoft. // Abstract Given the popularity of generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) often consume hundreds or thousa...

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