Mikhail Chrestkha

MikhailChrestkha

AI Infrastructure & AI Platforms

By day I help enterprise developers go from prototype to production. At night I play at the intersection of data, music, and apps.

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Training log Every talk, post and app, by month
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Year J F M A M J J A S O N D
2026 Aug 2026 · App Sound TravelsAug 2026 · App Hip Hop Lineage
2025 Feb 2025 · Post Hundreds of organizations are fine-tuning Gemini models. Here's their favorite use cases. Mar 2025 · Talk Driving Profitability with AI Jun 2025 · Talk Bridging the AI Deployment Gap: Taking From Prototype to Production
2024 Jan 2024 · Post Level Up Your AI Strategy: From Models to Applications and Beyond Feb 2024 · Talk What's new with Generative AI (on Vertex AI) Apr 2024 · Talk Operationalizing generative AI on Vertex AI Sep 2024 · Talk Vision to Value: Generative AI Breakfast Briefing Dec 2024 · Talk Unlocking the potential of MLOps & LLMOps
2023 Apr 2023 · Talk Optimize for AI innovation Aug 2023 · Talk Building your MLOps strategy for generative AI Dec 2023 · Talk Prompt tracking and observability with Vertex AI
2022 Apr 2022 · Talk How airlines forecast demand with FLYR and Google Cloud Oct 2022 · Talk AI Infrastructure: Accelerating ML development with optimized performance and cost
2021 Jan 2021 · Post An Accelerated Big Data Workflow for the Data Analyst Nov 2021 · Talk NVIDIA NGC & Vertex AI on Google Cloud
2020 May 2020 · Post CatBoost on Google Cloud's AI Platform w/ CPUs & GPUs Jul 2020 · Talk Accelerate Spark 3.0 with Google Cloud Dataproc and NVIDIA GPUs Aug 2020 · Post Cost-Benefit of GPUs for Data and Machine Learning Oct 2020 · Post Lightweight yet scalable TensorFlow workflow on Google Cloud
2019 Apr 2019 · Talk Machine Learning on Streaming Data using Kafka, Beam, and TensorFlowApr 2019 · Talk Data Science at Scale with R on GCP
2018 Jul 2018 · Talk Getting Started with Deep Learning Models in R using Google Cloud and RStudio Nov 2018 · Talk Cloud OnAir: CETV: Introducing Cloud TPU Pod Dec 2018 · Post Announcing the beta release of SparkR job types in Cloud Dataproc
B-sides

Side projects

Two maps of the world’s music: what’s playing right now, and where it all came from.

Sound Travels

Most music never leaves home.

Hear what every country is really listening to right now, find the local hits that never leave home, and see which few songs the whole world shares.

Released

Hip Hop Lineage

43 cities, 300 names, one shared lineage.

Follow hip hop from a Bronx rec room in 1973 to Lagos, Seoul and Mumbai, and come away knowing where each sound came from and who to listen to next.

Released

On the record

Talks & writing

Talks and posts since 2018, often sharing the stage with Weights & Biases, Datatonic, Vodafone, Kingfisher, Credit Karma, Wayfair, Palo Alto Networks, AI21 Labs, Uber & Cohere.

2025

  • , talk

    Bridging the AI Deployment Gap: Taking From Prototype to Production

    with Weights & Biases

    Session Site

  • , talk

    Driving Profitability with AI

    Video

  • , post

    Hundreds of organizations are fine-tuning Gemini models. Here's their favorite use cases.

    Blog

2024

  • , talk

    Unlocking the potential of MLOps & LLMOps

    with Weights & Biases

    Video

  • , talk

    Vision to Value: Generative AI Breakfast Briefing

    with Datatonic, Vodafone & Kingfisher

    Session abstract

  • , talk

    Operationalizing generative AI on Vertex AI

    with Credit Karma & Wayfair

    Video Slides

  • , talk

    What's new with Generative AI (on Vertex AI)

    Video

  • , post

    Level Up Your AI Strategy: From Models to Applications and Beyond

    Blog

2023

  • , talk

    Prompt tracking and observability with Vertex AI

    with Weights & Biases

    Video

  • , talk

    Building your MLOps strategy for generative AI

    Video Slides

  • , talk

    Optimize for AI innovation

    with Palo Alto Networks & AI21 Labs

    Video Blog

2022

  • , talk

    AI Infrastructure: Accelerating ML development with optimized performance and cost

    with Uber & Cohere

    Video

  • , talk

    How airlines forecast demand with FLYR and Google Cloud

    Video

2021

  • , talk

    NVIDIA NGC & Vertex AI on Google Cloud

    Session

  • , post

    An Accelerated Big Data Workflow for the Data Analyst

    Blog Code samples

2020

  • , post

    Lightweight yet scalable TensorFlow workflow on Google Cloud

    Blog Code samples

  • , post

    Cost-Benefit of GPUs for Data and Machine Learning

    Blog

  • , talk

    Accelerate Spark 3.0 with Google Cloud Dataproc and NVIDIA GPUs

    Video

  • , post

    CatBoost on Google Cloud's AI Platform w/ CPUs & GPUs

    Blog Code samples

2019

  • , talk

    Data Science at Scale with R on GCP

    Cloud Next '19

    Video

  • , talk

    Machine Learning on Streaming Data using Kafka, Beam, and TensorFlow

    Video

2018

  • , post

    Announcing the beta release of SparkR job types in Cloud Dataproc

    Blog

  • , talk

    Cloud OnAir: CETV: Introducing Cloud TPU Pod

    Video

  • , talk

    Getting Started with Deep Learning Models in R using Google Cloud and RStudio

    Cloud Next '18

    Video

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