
Manju Rajashekhar
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Manju Rajashekhar
@manju
EIR at Storm Ventures, Co-Founder & CTO of Blackbird AI - Acquired by Etsy, Ex-VP of Eng @Etsy, Early at @Twitter, @VMware, @Stanford, Avid 🏊🏾🧘🏾♂️


Today’s guest on Cross Validated is @manju Rajashekhar, who is the VP of Engineering at @Etsy. Manju has spent over seven years at Etsy, was an early employee at @Twitter, and has spent time at @VMware and @Microsoft. Etsy is an ecommerce platform connecting millions of creative buyers and sellers around the world. In this episode, we discuss: - Mature use case of search, ads and recommendations on the Etsy platform - Framework of deriving value from AI / ML - Ease of prototyping vs. deploying AI today - Strong belief why open source will win Subscribe for the next episode: t.ly/N2CK_



The value of in-house expertise danluu.com/in-house/






A history of major cache incidents at Twitter danluu.com/cache-incident…

Dear fellow relevance engineers, allow me to karaoke you 🎶Don't go chasing state-of-the-art! Please stick to the methods and the techniques you're used to Take time to measure and evaluate don't assume SOTA work well for youuouu... 🎶


Want to learn about some of the latest neural network advances in Information Retrieval🔎? Then join us for our online master-level course "Advanced IR" @tuvienna! We'll revisit some IR basics, NLP techniques, and then focus on cool new neural IR methods🔥 github.com/sebastian-hofs…

Machine Learning models are the new software artifacts getting operationalized at scale today but they are hard to debug! If I were an ML Engineer on-call and got a PagerDuty alert that CLICKs are down on our AI-based recommendations product, how do I troubleshoot it? /thread






