Writers and practitioners shaping data, ML, and AI engineering - their latest posts flow into the Voices feed.
The Databricks co-founder and CEO is a Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, specializing in distributed systems, big data and data management. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. He coauthored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL
AI researcher and educator; founding member of OpenAI, former Tesla AI director, founder of Eureka Labs.
Founder of SwirlAI; writes on AI engineering, data systems, and agentic patterns.
Co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo; pioneer of the data observability category.
Editor of Gradient Flow; former chief data scientist and program chair of major AI conferences.
SeattleDataGuy; writes and teaches on data engineering, pipelines, and data careers.
Co-founder of Mode; weekly essays on data, analytics, and the modern data stack.
Former Chief Decision Scientist at Google; writes on decision intelligence and applied AI.
Author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering; writes on production ML.
Author of The AiEdge newsletter; writes on machine learning systems and LLMs.
Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast; long-form interviews on AI, science, and progress.
Applied scientist writing on ML systems, recommendations, and building with LLMs in production.
ML engineer focused on LLM evals and tooling; longtime open-source contributor.
Creator of The Illustrated Transformer; visual explanations of machine learning concepts.
Co-founder of fast.ai and Answer.AI; democratizing deep learning through courses and research.
Programmer writing about build systems, Rust compilers, developer tooling, and software security.
AI researcher (ex-OpenAI) whose Lil-Log blog is a reference for deep learning and LLM topics.
Creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset; founder and CEO of Preset.
ML researcher and author of Build a Large Language Model From Scratch; writes Ahead of AI.
NLP researcher writing on language models, multilinguality, and evaluation.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; prolific writer on LLMs and practical AI tooling.
is an Indian-American computer scientist and executive. He has been the chief executive officer of cloud-based data-warehousing company Snowflake Inc. since February 2024. He was the cofounder and CEO of the startup company Neeva, an ad-free, privacy-focused search engine, until it was acquired by Snowflake.
Machine learning engineer writing candidly on ML systems, embeddings, and the craft of the work.