Valliappa Lakshmanan

Lak is Head for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud. His team builds software solutions for business problems using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning products. He is the author of Machine Learning Design Patterns, Data Science on GCP (O'Reilly), BigQuery the Definitive Guide (O'Reilly). He founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab ML Immersion program. Before Google, Lak was a Director of Data Science at Climate Corporation and a Research Scientist at NOAA. He's the original author of several Coursera specializations including Machine Learning on GCP, Advanced Machine Learning on GCP, and Data Engineering. Follow him on Twitter at @lak_luster. http://www.vlakshman.com/