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Adi Polak

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Adi Polak

@AdiPolak

Productionizing AI systems @ Confluent • Author • Databricks MVP • Ex Microsoft, Akamai..

Bay Area, CA

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Joined May 2011

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Adi Polak
@AdiPolak
Oct 30, 2021
I earned a master's degree following my thesis in machine learning and can tell you right now that some of the BEST coders I've worked with never had formal education. It 💯% helped me land a job interview, but it does not make me a better coder/data scientist than anyone else.
Adi Polak
@AdiPolak
Jul 17
tech excellence shouldn't be optional
Adi Polak
@AdiPolak
Jul 15
Finally. I can see my friends here 👋
Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
Jul 13
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Adi Polak
@AdiPolak
Jun 19
Change my mind AI isn’t changing our ability to build software. It’s changing our responsibility to decide what deserves to be built.
Adi Polak
@AdiPolak
Jun 16
highperformancespark.com
High Performance Spark — Best Practices for Scaling Apache Spark
The definitive guide to writing high-performance Apache Spark applications. Updated for Spark 4. 2nd Edition by Holden Karau, Adi Polak & Rachel Warren.