E390 Timo Mertens, Head of ML and NLP Products at Grammarly

Today's guest is Timo Mertens, Head of ML and NLP Products at Grammarly in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 2009, Grammarly strives to help people understand one another, whenever and wherever they communicate in English. Every day, 30 million people and 50,000 teams around the world rely on their real-time suggestions to strengthen their writing and say what they really mean. Grammarly's suggestions help identify and replace complicated sentences with more efficient ones, refresh repetitive language, and uphold accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Using a variety of innovative approaches such as advanced machine learning and deep learning, Grammarly consistently break new ground in Natural Language Processing  research to deliver unrivaled assistance in their product offerings. That’s why they were recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential companies and Fast Company as one of the world’s most innovative AI companies. It’s also why Grammarly rank among industry leaders on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and The Software Report’s Top 100 Software Companies.

In the episode, Timo will discuss:

The mission they are working towards at Grammarly,

Using Machine Learning in their products to improve communication,

The team behind their success,

Use cases of the impact Grammarly brings to customers,

What excites him for the future of Grammarly, and

What he looks for when hiring into the team