Naren Thiagarajan is a software engineer and entrepreneur with a background in infrastructure and scalable backends. He has worked at Stanford Systems Lab and Oracle, and served as Engineering Director at Location Labs.

 

More recently, Naren has co-founded FloydHub, where he currently serves as CTO. FloydHub is an AWS-hosted cloud service for machine learning. It offers PaaS with fully configured CPU and GPU environments for deep learning, and includes popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch and Keras.

 

 

Highlights:

How Naren started in AI and machine learning.

How to educate yourself about machine learning via the internet.

Cost-saving solutions on the FloydHub platform.

How FloydHub hosts jobs.

How FloydHub plans to help democratize AI.

Good machine learning projects for beginners.

 

Links and Resources:

Naren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/narenst

Naren on Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/naren-thiagarajan

Naren on Medium: https://medium.com/@narenst

Naren on AngelList: https://angel.co/narenst

FloydHub website: https://www.floydhub.com/

First Level (sponsor): https://firstlevel.io/

The Accessible AI Podcast is hosted by Yevgeni Zolotorevsky and produced by Shola Abidoye. Copyright Meta Training OU, 2018