Today’s guest on Cross Validated is Manju Rajashekhar, who is the VP of Engineering at Etsy. Manju has spent over seven years at Etsy, was an early employee at Twitter, and has spent time at VMWare and Microsoft.  Etsy is an ecommerce platform connecting millions of creative buyers and sellers around the world.

On this episode, Manju joins Pauline to discuss the mature use case of search, ads and recommendations on the Etsy platform, framework of deriving value from AI / ML, the ease of prototyping vs. deploying AI today, and his strong belief why open source will win.  

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