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Solmaz Shahalizadeh

5 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2019 by Solmaz Shahalizadeh · across every show →

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Jun 12, 2019
Disclosure
Shahalizadeh hires machine learning talent by looking outside traditional ML backgrounds
“I recruit machine learning people by not going after machine learning people.”
Solmaz Shahalizadeh Jun 12, 2019 ▶ 22:55 Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
Jun 12, 2019 positive
Insight
Shahalizadeh: Answering simple questions drives more data impact than machine learning
“And I think that's sort of a neglected part of data science. Everyone talks about, like machine learning and building all of these data products, but I think lots of the impact, lots of the trust and usage of data actually comes from being able to answer to so…”
Solmaz Shahalizadeh Jun 12, 2019 ▶ 31:36 Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
Jun 12, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shahalizadeh: Compute advances reduced two-year neural net tasks to one week
“What took me two years along with a team to do, like, right now with the advances over the last few years in compute and in storage, you can do probably over a week.”
Solmaz Shahalizadeh Jun 12, 2019 ▶ 3:31 Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
Jun 12, 2019 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Shahalizadeh: Shopify expanded from 300 to over 5,000 employees
“When I joined, we were 300 people, and now we are over 5000, so it's been massive growth, really, over the years.”
Solmaz Shahalizadeh Jun 12, 2019 ▶ 1:17 Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
Jun 12, 2019 negative
Disclosure
Shahalizadeh: Shopify incurred technical debt by jumping straight to ML
“And there has been times that even us, we've sort of, like, jumped to the top top in one of the areas, and you pay the technical debt that you did not do the work in the beginning.”
Solmaz Shahalizadeh Jun 12, 2019 ▶ 21:22 Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
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