Programming Throwdown Episode 151

Machine Learning Engineering with Leran Haysan. Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. We are going to be covering something really, really important, which is

ML Engineering. Some folks might have never heard that term before, but ML and AI is becoming extremely important. I saw some stat

the other day. Basically, almost all the Fortune 500 companies have, you know, whole teams

dedicated to AI and ML. You know, it's kind of accelerating, you know, so many different areas.

And so a machine learning engineer is going to become a bigger and bigger field as we kind of

move forward.

And so super excited that we have Leran Hassan here to talk to us about ML engineering, what it's

all about, how you can get skills in that area, and what those folks do all day. So thanks so much,

Lerun, for coming on the show. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me.

Cool. So let's talk a little bit about kind of your background. So, you know, what has been

kind of your experience with ML engineering? How did you, you know, kind of get into that and how did you

kind of move on to where now you're kind of building tools to serve that community? How did that

journey go for you? Sure. So, well, my journey started way, way back when I was 10 years old,

just being super curious about building websites. It started with that.

Wait, really building websites at 10? That's amazing. Yeah, well, just a friend of mine just called

me and kind of told me he built a website. I was like, what does that mean? Right? And he just

read kind of 200 long characters of a website address.

I was typing it one by one. And suddenly I saw his name on my screen and my mind just blown.

Like it was like, whoa, that's crazy. Yeah. So that got me curious. And I was like, how did you do that? I have to

learn that. So yeah, I learned. And then I saw an advanced capability called HTML. So I asked my mother

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