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Adi Polak is going to share her expertise and thoughts on Machine Learning, Big Data, and the future trends in the industry. She’s also gonna talk about how these complex things work, the challenges they present, and some of the buzzwords typical of her industry.
Adi’s gonna share with us which tasks she performs on a daily basis, which personality traits are beneficial for her work, and the differences between the different job roles in her field.
We’re also are gonna learn more about Adi’s involvement in the community, her approach to teaching and learning, and how this can make a difference in people’s lives.
Guest Bio:
Adi Polak is a senior software engineer and a developer advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on distributed systems, big data analysis, machine learning at scale, and functional programming. She does extensive work in the Big Data and Functional programming communities.
Adi has an extensive background in software development. She holds an M.sc in Software and Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University, during her studies she worked with IBM and Deutsch Telekom Research labs on various projects where she gained expertise in ML.
Adi was nominated to be 1 of 25 influential women in Software Development by Apiumhub.
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"It takes some dedicated work, but It takes strategic work sometimes as well. So it's not alwaysabout working hard, it's also about being strategic on the things that you decide to pursue." Adi Polak
Timestamps:
- (0:44) Speakers and podcast introduction
- (3:05) Microsoft activity in the Open Source field
- (4:25) How Adi deals with Open Source work
- (8:05) Differences between big data and machine learning
- (12:33) The newest things in the industry
- (15:43) Versioning challenges
- (17:15) Different Job Roles and what makes them unique
- (21:35) How Adi approaches learning
- (26:05) How Adi teaches others
- (29:08) How Covid-19 has changed things
- (33:11) Personality traits that Adi finds beneficial in her role
- (36:19) 3 things in tech that Adi's is excited about now
- (37:42) Adi's favorite fantasy technology
- (39:57) Adi's involvement in diversity projects
- (43:33) How to help and encourage others
- (46:46) Adi's shout-out to a special community
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