Sramana Mitra: I enjoy listening to you and hearing what you have been doing. I keep my eye out for finding platform companies. You may want to look up my writing on the Platform-as-a-Service. I think you will enjoy that. It’s an area that we are covering extensively. Switching gears, what are some open problems
Sramana Mitra: If I am a developer, what are my choices in terms of picking a machine learning engine or platform? What am I choosing from? You and who else? Zach Shelby: What kind of developer are you? That is the real question. Rationally, machine learning and AI tooling have been designed for data scientists.
Sramana Mitra: You have 12,000 developers currently building ML applications, what is the constitution of these developers? Are these 12,000 developers sitting inside larger companies or entrepreneurs building new apps for new ISVs? Zach Shelby: We have the whole spectrum. That is something that we have strived for. When you bring in new technology in
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click on how you managed to get 12,000 developers working and building on your platform. Zach Shelby: What I found to work best with developers is radical transparency, focusing on what they care about, and how they work with their product. In our case, we provide machine learning tools in the cloud
Zach is building a Machine Learning platform company upon which 12,000 developers are building apps. This is a terrific conversation that spans how to build developer networks for a PaaS company, and numerous related issues. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Edge Impulse.