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Enabling Innovation at Uber Speed
Uber has been growing at a breakneck speed both in terms of business as well as in terms of people. Innovation and the speed of innovation is paramount to our success. At the same time, Uber’s mission is defined as “Transportation That Is As Reliable as Running Water”. How does Uber create an engineering environment that fosters innovation, rapid growth, fast pace and reliability? What does a day in a life of an Uber engineer/data scientist look like? This talk will walk you through the lessons we learnt and the models we created to help us as an engineering organization.
Speaker
Aurore Kervella
Responsible for Data Quality @Uber Communications
Aurore is a statistician on Uber's Communications Platform. She is responsible for data quality, defining key business metrics related to Communications, and building an intelligent router to ensure that Uber communications with existing rider and driver partners are optimal. Prior to Uber,...
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Sudhir Tonse
Engineering Manager @Uber - Marketplace Data & Forecasting
Sudhir Tonse manages the Realtime Data Intelligence organization at Uber which is responsible for the Marketplace Data Pipeline, Storage and Compute framework as well as Insights and Marketplace Forecasting. Previously Sudhir managed the Cloud Platform Infrastructure team at Netflix and was...
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Engineering Culture @{{cool_company}}
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