Max Pumperla

Biography:

 Max is a data science professor and software engineer located in Hamburg, Germany. He’s an active open source contributor, maintainer of several Python packages, author of machine learning books and speaker at international conferences. He currently works as software engineer at Anyscale. As head of product research at Pathmind Inc. he was developing reinforcement learning solutions for industrial applications at scale using Ray RLlib, Serve and Tune. Max has been a core developer of DL4J at Skymind, helped grow and extend the Keras ecosystem, and is a hyperopt maintainer.