Ryan Clough, A Professional

ML Infrastructure @spotify. Former Applied ML @vimeo. N-gram constructions resembling words and opinions are merely coincidental and solely mine. [He/Him]🎸🎶🤖

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

The talk @daikeshi an I did at #kubecon2019 is now up on youtube! If you want to see why & how we are providing @kubeflow as a centralized resource for our ML practitioners at @SpotifyEng, check it out! https://t.co/BqNXg2cxqc

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

wow, even more depressing to see our stock skyrocket over this

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

Massive layoffs at Spotify today 😞 While I was not layed off, I have many colleagues whom I would gladly work with again that will be looking for jobs. MLEs, EMs, PMs all with full scale ml or ml infra experience, if your team/company is looking for it.

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

Please reach out if your team has opportunities for my colleagues and friends, you won't be disappointed in their work and passion 🖤

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

the google cloud logs viewer is the worst. I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to just copy a multi line stack trace. I gave up and just sent a link.

It has so many bells and whistles when 90% of the time I'd be better served from being able to just cat a log

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

PS if anyone wants to help me get on bsky, HMU :)

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

returning briefly to give yall another ML Ops meme

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

Not to mention the hilarity of "salient lines of code".... Outside of really low level programming, great code isn't like a programming interview, it involves interactions across multiple systems, impactful abstractions, etc that cross numerous files....

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

I could not imagine the humiliation of having to do this after another 1.2k of my coworkers just left and I'd signed up (or was coerced due to immigration issues) to be "hardcore" for Elon

[William Pietri @williampietri]

I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

@hanneshapke @casassaez Certainly other engineers will continue to contribute at other companies but not as likely that they'll have the sort of environmental mandate a company the size and culture of Twitter has

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

Was cleaning up my calendar and got this sad response from one of my meetings, RIP to much of Twitter's ML Platform team 💔

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

@hanneshapke @casassaez Lots of open source projects are historically comprised of the biggest companies that make use of them.... But for production ML, Twitter is def among one of the bigger ones, definitely a big brain drain for open source caused by the lay offs

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

@casassaez I can only imagine 😔 sorry you have to deal with such chaos and the loss of so many of your coworkers

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

@bernhardsson I forgot backstage is open source now.... I have no idea if the OSS version of this has it but it would be in here if it did https://t.co/8uW1gq4CVK

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

@bernhardsson Our docs system in backstage does this at Spotify (def launched after your time), you can select text and there's some kind of widget that will open a GH issue on the repo where the docs are committed, filed out with the highlighted text. Not sure what powers it...

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

The role is really fun because you get a wide view of all the different kinds of ML being done across Spotify (at least 30+ teams with ML projects!) and help shape he direction of the ML platform. We also do a lot of lighter consultations with more mature teams.

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

This past year at @SpotifyEng I've started working as a solutions engineer within our ML Platform - Every quarter I work directly with 1 or 2 different teams to help them achieve their production ML goals by helping hem onboard, implement and sometimes augment our platform tools.

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in doing, and have experience with implementing best practices for production ML pipelines, especially with Tensorflow and TFX, let me know (and ask questions), because we're now hiring a second "me" 😁 https://t.co/ASsDmejBiI

[Ryan Clough, A Professional @fnord2vec]

Why fight with infrastructure when you can fight with an abstracted DSL instead?

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The dumbest thing I hear is “Facebook listens to your conversations”

My coworkers were a bunch of risk-averse MBAs who’d never build something that cool.

So why do you see ads for something you talked about? It’s because your life is predictable & the ad algorithm is that good.