Noah Gift is the founder of Pragmatic A.I. Labs. Noah Gift 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. He teaches and designs graduate machine learning, MLOps, A.I., Data Engineering Data Science courses, and consulting on Machine Learning and Cloud Architecture for students and faculty. He is an AWS ML Hero, as well as SME in Machine Learning and holds multiple AWS Certifications.

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. He has built complete technology stacks for organizations on the AWS cloud in languages including Python, C#, Ruby, Node and Erlang. He has authored multiple books for O'Reilly including recent titles Python for DevOps and Practical MLOps. In his spare time you might find him building serverless applications on the AWS platform. James Charlesworth is a software engineer, manager, blogger, public speaker and developer advocate. Starting his career in industrial control systems James rode the storm surge of cloud computing into web-based applications around 2011. He is a deeply passionate advocate of cloud native architecture, ditching servers and leaning on managed services to provide scalability, reliability and security. James lives in Sheffield UK and spends the rest of his time creating youtube videos and playing guitar in a rock band.