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leadership
(21)Exceptional Leadership: Some Qualities, Behaviors, and Styles
What makes a good leader? What do good leaders do? And commando, soldier, and police leadership.
18 May 2025 Ā· 4 min Ā· leadership
39 Lessons on Building ML Systems, Scaling, Execution, and More
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
03 Nov 2024 Ā· 10 min Ā· machinelearning engineering production leadership
How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
07 Jul 2024 Ā· 21 min Ā· machinelearning career leadership š„
Netflix PRS 2024 - Applying LLMs to Recommendation Experiences
Challenges and lessons from deploying LLM experiences: evals, scalability, guardrails.
31 May 2024 Ā· 2 min Ā· llm engineering production leadership
What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
12 May 2024 Ā· 1 min Ā· llm engineering production leadership š„
Mechanisms for Effective Technical Teams
End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
05 Feb 2023 Ā· 7 min Ā· mechanism leadership
What To Do If Dependency Teams Canāt Help
Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
08 Jan 2023 Ā· 3 min Ā· leadership misc
Mailbag: How to Define a Data Team's Vision and Roadmap
I'm heading into a team lead role and would like to define the vision and roadmap.
18 Feb 2022 Ā· 3 min Ā· leadership datascience š¬
Influencing without Authority for Data Scientists
Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
04 Jul 2021 Ā· 9 min Ā· leadership
Bukalapak - Fireside Chat with the Data Science team
We discussed about how to build and run data teams and engage better with business.
28 Mar 2021 Ā· 10 min Ā· datascience leadership
Choosing Problems in Data Science and Machine Learning
Short vs. long-term gain, incremental vs. disruptive innovation, and resume-driven development.
21 Mar 2021 Ā· 12 min Ā· datascience machinelearning leadership
Growing and Running Your Data Science Team
What I learned about hiring and training, and fostering innovation, discipline, and camaraderie.
31 Jan 2021 Ā· 16 min Ā· leadership datascience
Is Writing as Important as Coding?
As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders.
04 Oct 2020 Ā· 13 min Ā· writing leadership
Datacast Podcast - Effective Data Science with Eugene Yan
My chat with James Le about my experience, leadership, agile, ML in production, writing, and more.
03 Sep 2020 Ā· 17 min Ā· datascience leadership career lazada
Unpopular Opinion: Data Scientists Should be More End-to-End
Why (and why not) be more end-to-end, how to, and Stitch Fix and Netflix's experience
09 Aug 2020 Ā· 17 min Ā· datascience machinelearning leadership š„
What I Love about Scrum for Data Science
Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why.
07 Jun 2020 Ā· 10 min Ā· mechanism agile leadership datascience
OLX Prod Tech 2019 Keynote - Asia's Tech Giants & SuperApps
Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
03 Oct 2019 Ā· 3 min Ā· machinelearning engineering leadership
Big Data & Analytics Summit - Data Science Challenges @ Lazada
Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
21 Jun 2018 Ā· 8 min Ā· datascience leadership lazada
Building a Strong Data Science Team Culture
Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
12 May 2018 Ā· 5 min Ā· leadership datascience lazada
My first 100 days as Data Science Lead
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
25 Sep 2017 Ā· 5 min Ā· leadership datascience lazada
One way to help a data science team innovate successfully
If things are not failing, you're not innovating enough. - Elon Musk
19 Feb 2017 Ā· 3 min Ā· leadership datascience lazada
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