Noah Gift is the founder of Pragmatic A.I. Labs. He lectures at MSDS, at Northwestern, Duke MIDS Graduate Data Science Program, the Graduate Data Science program at UC Berkeley, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management MSBA program, UNC Charlotte Data Science Initiative, and University of Tennessee (as part of the Tennessee Digital Jobs Factory). He teaches and designs graduate machine learning, MLOps, AI, and data science courses, and consulting on machine learning and cloud architecture for students and faculty. As a former CTO, individual contributor, and consultant he has over 20 years' experience shipping revenue-generating products in many industries including film, games, and SaaS. Alfredo Deza is a passionate software engineer, speaker, author, and former Olympic athlete with almost two decades of DevOps and software engineering experience. He currently teaches Machine Learning Engineering and gives worldwide lectures about software development, personal development, and professional sports.

Alfredo has written several books about DevOps and Python, and continues to share his knowledge about resilient infrastructure, testing, and robust development practices in courses, books, and presentations.