James Le leads Developer Experience at Twelve Labs, building foundation models for video understanding and advancing production ML and data infrastructure. A former ML advocate and data science journalist, he also hosts Datacast and writes Data Notes on industry, research, and careers in AI.
17 articles from this blog
An interview with Salma Bakouk, CEO of Sifflet, discussing data stack observability, data quality, lineage, and building a modern data team.
Interview with Suresh Srinivas on his career in big data, founding Hortonworks, scaling Uber's data platform, and leading the OpenMetadata project.
Datacast interview with Krishna Gade, founder of Fiddler AI, discussing data infrastructure, AI observability, and responsible AI governance.
Interview with Emanuel Zgraggen, CEO of Einblick, on his career journey and building a visual computing platform for accessible data analysis.
Interview with Diana Hsieh on her career from MIT to product management, founding Correlated, and the rise of Product-Led Revenue for startups.
A Datacast interview with VC Jason Risch on investing in enterprise data, AI, infrastructure, and developer tools, plus funding trends and the future cloud data platform.
A Datacast interview with Heather Wentworth on using data intelligence and technology to transform the insurance industry.
Interview with Weaviate CEO Bob Van Luijt on building an open-source vector database, the rise of vector search, and the business of AI-first software.
Interview with Bessemer VP Sakib Dadi on trends in developer platforms, data infrastructure, and software investment theses.
A Datacast interview with VC Casber Wang discussing open-source cloud strategies, modular AI/data infrastructure, and tech investing trends.
Interview with Itai Bar Sinai, co-founder of Mona Labs, discussing AI monitoring, product-oriented data science, and the Israeli ML community.
Interview with Gabi Steele, co-founder of Preql, discussing data visualization, building data culture, and the future of data transformation tools.
Interview with Redpanda Data founder Alex Gallego on building a high-performance data streaming platform, his career journey, and supporting minorities in tech.
Interview with Chetan Sharma, CEO of Eppo, discussing A/B testing, statistics engineering, and building a modern experimentation platform.
Interview with Chad Sanderson on data platform leadership, experimentation culture, data quality, and the rise of data contracts.
Interview with AI researcher Curtis Northcutt on his journey from rural Kentucky to MIT, founding Cleanlab, and his work on confident learning and dataset improvement.
Interview with Frank Liu on vector databases, embeddings, his career in ML/hardware, and work culture differences between China and the US.
