People shaping data & AI

23 people

Founders, executives, researchers, and writers referenced across our articles, news, and digest. Writers with feeds also appear in Voices.

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The Databricks co-founder and CEO is a Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, specializing in distributed systems, big data and data mana...

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is an Indian-American computer scientist and executive. He has been the chief executive officer of cloud-based data-warehousing company Snowflake Inc. since Feb...

Voices

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AI researcher and educator; founding member of OpenAI, former Tesla AI director, founder of Eureka Labs.

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Founder of SwirlAI; writes on AI engineering, data systems, and agentic patterns.

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Co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo; pioneer of the data observability category.

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Editor of Gradient Flow; former chief data scientist and program chair of major AI conferences.

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SeattleDataGuy; writes and teaches on data engineering, pipelines, and data careers.

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Co-founder of Mode; weekly essays on data, analytics, and the modern data stack.

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Former Chief Decision Scientist at Google; writes on decision intelligence and applied AI.

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Author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering; writes on production ML.

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Author of The AiEdge newsletter; writes on machine learning systems and LLMs.

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Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast; long-form interviews on AI, science, and progress.

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Applied scientist writing on ML systems, recommendations, and building with LLMs in production.

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ML engineer focused on LLM evals and tooling; longtime open-source contributor.

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Creator of The Illustrated Transformer; visual explanations of machine learning concepts.

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Co-founder of fast.ai and Answer.AI; democratizing deep learning through courses and research.

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Programmer writing about build systems, Rust compilers, developer tooling, and software security.

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AI researcher (ex-OpenAI) whose Lil-Log blog is a reference for deep learning and LLM topics.

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Creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset; founder and CEO of Preset.

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ML researcher and author of Build a Large Language Model From Scratch; writes Ahead of AI.

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NLP researcher writing on language models, multilinguality, and evaluation.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; prolific writer on LLMs and practical AI tooling.

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Machine learning engineer writing candidly on ML systems, embeddings, and the craft of the work.