Jacques is a systems and software engineer with 10+ years of experience in web-scale consumer and enterprise software. He’s an ex-Yahoo and was employee number 8 and lead engineer at Netsil, an application monitoring start-up that was acquired by Nutanix. He built Nutanix’s AiOps business and cloud data-pipeline. Jacques has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Pierre has 8+ years of hands-on experience both at IBM Watson and smaller startups. He trained and deployed the first pre-trained IBM Watson service (personality insights). Pierre worked on different types of models (NLP, Computer Vision, Automated Speech Recognition). He taught a master’s degree class on MLOps at Columbia University. Pierre has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.