Our guest: David Aponte

David Aponte is a machine learning engineer, working in machine learning infrastructure and ML-Ops. With a background in molecular biology, education, and data science, he enjoys building solutions to support multidisciplinary domains. 

He also helps lead and organize the ML-Ops Community, a global community of ML-Ops practitioners dedicated to sharing and promoting best practices for machine learning in production.

In this episode, David starts off by giving us a peek into his day-to-day as a machine learning engineer. He gives us an insider view of the drug discovery domain and how AI/ML is helping with real-life examples of the developments during the pandemic.

David is passionate about the focus on data and emphasizes it as the fuel that drives the AI/ML engine – the more the better, the higher quality fuel there is, the better access that one gets will all result in the best outcomes.

David then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.

You will not want to miss the companion video segment with David on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.

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