Valery Babushkin is a machine learning expert and Senior Director of Data & AI at BP (British Petroleum). He is a Kaggle Grandmaster and the author of the book "Machine Learning System Design." Valery has unique experience in data science: he was VP of ML at Alibaba Russia, managed a large analytics organization at X5 Retail Group, worked at BigTech, and also headed the data science department at Blockchain.com.
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Timecodes:
00:00 - Introduction, meeting the guest
1:42 - Who is Valery Babushkin?
3:10 - Working at BP (British Petroleum)
6:33 - Working at Blockchain.com
11:41 - The Story Behind the Book
19:00 - ML System Design Interview Questions for Junior Engineers?
21:13 - What Kind of Junior Engineers Are There?
23:15 - How to Choose Which Problems to Take and Which Not to Take?
26:16 - How to Twist Arms in a Corporation?
28:00 - Comfortable Work Environment and Working with AI
33:06 - Kaggle Competitions – Hobby or Addiction
36:00 - What's the Biggest Advantage of Working with Valery?
50:35 - How Hobbies Help a Big Boss – LEGO, Sports, Friends, Family
55:24 - The Unpleasant Situation with Yandex
57:30 - Changing the Country's Educational Landscape
1:01:44 - Valery's Artistry and the Embarrassment of Self-Presentation
1:07:16 - Is It Possible to Get a Mentorship from Valery