Tech Talks

Here are some of the talks I gave, mostly around Machine Learning and AI

Vector Search at Scale with Redis

Got to share key learnings of building large-scale vector search with limited resources:

  • You can get far without vector DB, keep things simple
  • Reuse systems you already have (everyone adds vector support)
  • How we integrated VectorDB with rest of ML infra (model gateway, feature store, ML pipelines)
Audience wanted to go deeper into how HNSW index actually works

Web3 and AI: from 0 to 100 in ML/AI

Nothing beats 6am train to get to Narva, at the very border of European Union

At a keynote speech, I shared insights of pragmatism over hype, story of Bolt’s journey from 0 to 100+ ML-powered systems. I even got to juggle mandarins on the stage! 🍊

Engineering Management Meetup @ Pipedrive.

In this talk I shared my journey into management and several ideas how to be more empathetic and effective leader. Tiny sample:

  • Read “Turn the ship around” and “5 Dysfunctions of a team”
  • to be better at “people skills”, check out hack #13 in the “Captivate” book summary https://www.scienceofpeople.com/captivate-summary/
Got to share stories and resources that made me a better manager

Data Platform in efficiency-driven culture @ Tartu Bolt Meetup

Machine Learning/AI and product development for teenagers.

Warning: karaoke at the end. August 2023, Jõhvi

Infrastructure-agnostic ML Platform + Data Monitoring.

November 2022, Stockholm

MLOPS Platform at Bolt – pragmatic approach.

October 2022, Berlin

AI/ML webinar by AWS for Product Managers

Scaling Data Science at Bolt

at first Data Science edition of FWDays conference (Sep’2019) https://fwdays.com/en/event/data-science-fwdays-2019/review/scaling-data-science-at-bolt

Machine Learning Meetup at Bolt (March’2019):

Robotex NorthStar AI meetup (Dec’2018):

MLOPS at EuroSciPy Conference

Trento, Italy 2018

MLOPS at PyData Tartu 2018

Biohacking 101

15×4 Tartu about (when I was into quantified self stuff)