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aliases: ["Adeel Khan"]
Is A: Person
Tier: "3rd 🥉"
Tags: ["Podcast Guest"]
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# Adeel Khan

Staff engineer specializing in ML platform infrastructure at a large Bay Area tech company. Adeel joined the podcast to discuss the often-overlooked challenge of building reliable ML pipelines at scale, covering topics from feature stores to model serving and the organizational dynamics of platform teams. Luca connected with him through a mutual contact in the DevOps community on Twitter.

## Notes

- Extremely methodical communicator; breaks down complex ML infrastructure concepts into digestible analogies
- Strong opinions on the separation between ML research and ML engineering, advocates for dedicated platform teams
- Deeply interested in developer experience for data scientists, sees it as a largely unsolved problem
- Quiet on social media but maintains a well-regarded technical blog with infrequent, high-quality posts

## Collaborations

- [[24q3-podcast-season-2]] — recorded episode on ML infrastructure and platform engineering
- [[topic-ai-ml]] — primary topic area for his episode
- [[procedure-podcast-guest-outreach]] — sourced through DevOps Twitter community
