Hi! I’m Vicki. I’m a founding machine learning engineer working on recsys/personalization/information retrieval. I worked on LLMs and LLM infra at Mozilla.ai, and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic, and Comcast. My interests in machine learning include Recsys search, MLOps and production, and distributed systems. I like reverse-engineering neural nets and machine learning systems.

I wrote a paper about what embeddings are. Embeddings Approaches DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8015029

My side project was Viberary, which recommended you books based on vibe.

I ran an ML/data conference called Normconf.

Talks

• Pycon Italia Keynote 2024
• PyData Amsterdam Keynote 2023
• Normconf Keynote 2022

Writing and Editing

• Building Recommendation Systems - Technical Editor
• SQL for Data Scientists, Technical Editor
• The Best-Laid Plans, Increment Mag
• Architecture for Generations, Increment Mag