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Deep in the Mind of the Deepnote CEO (Jakub Jurovych) - KNN Ep. 56

Ken's Nearest Neighbors

English - July 14, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
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Jakub Jurovych is a founder and CEO of Deepnote, where he and his team are developing a collaborative data science notebook. Jakub studied Computer Science at Cambridge University, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning and Computer Vision. As an engineer, Jakub built tools for JavaScript development and worked on Firefox DevTools. Later on in his career, Jakub became the CTO of Operam, a company using machine learning for better marketing at companies and Hollywood studios. Jakub is also a YC alumnus and Forbes 30 Under 30.
In this episode we have an awesome conversation about project management of data science. We also talk about some of the similarities and differences between data science and software engineering teams. At the end, we dive deep into the origin of his company Deepnote.