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Scaling Machine Learning at Etsy to Support 100M+ Buyers & Sellers

Posted Oct 20, 2022 | Views 618
# TransformX 2022
# Fireside Chat
# AI in Retail & eCommerce
# MLOps & Infrastructure
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Mike Fisher
CTO @ Etsy

Mike is Etsy’s Chief Technology Officer, setting our technology strategy and helping to further scale our global platform.

Prior to joining Etsy, he was the co-founder and managing partner of the consulting firm AKF Partners. Mike’s career in technology has also included the roles of Chief Technology Officer of Quigo, Vice President of Engineering & Architecture for PayPal, and various roles at General Electric helping to develop the company’s technology strategy. He has also co-authored two books on scalability and has written numerous articles on business growth. Mike is a veteran, who served as a Captain and pilot in the US Army.

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Alexandr Wang
CEO & Founder @ Scale AI

Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the data platform accelerating the development of artificial intelligence. Alex founded Scale as a student at MIT at the age of 19 to help companies build long-term AI strategies with the right data and infrastructure. Under Alex's leadership, Scale has grown to a $7bn valuation serving hundreds of customers across industries from finance to e-commerce to U.S. government agencies.

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SUMMARY

Mike Fisher, Chief Technology Officer of Etsy, will join Scale CEO Alexandr Wang for a fireside chat. Etsy’s systems process over 6 billion events each day. Etsy’s platform was originally created to link creators of unique items with people wanting to buy these one-of-a-kind pieces. In this fireside chat, Fisher discusses scaling the Etsy platform to support over 100 million buyers and 5 million sellers using machine learning. Fisher also discusses how the company has rebuilt many of its search engine capabilities with more intelligent algorithms to provide more accurate recommendations.

Learn how Etsy addresses long-term product and content issues and how the company built a strong DevOps and engineering culture that encourages experimentation. Before joining Etsy, Fisher served as a captain and pilot in the U.S. Army, was a Vice President at PayPal, and had several technology leadership roles at GE.

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