What does your company do?
Pattern is the biggest seller on Amazon apart from Amazon itself.
Amit Vikram Raj
ML Platform Engineer
Pattern
Questions and Answers
What does your company do?
Pattern is the biggest seller on Amazon apart from Amazon itself.
Describe your role in 1—2 simple sentences.
I help Data Scientists do their job, supporting them with good engineering practices.
Describe your role in 1—2 simple sentences.
I help Data Scientists do their job, supporting them with good engineering practices.
What do you really do at work?
- Pair-program and migrate existing projects to a new tool that we bought recently, Metaflow
- Maintain internal tools & utility libraries that we built for our Data Science Team. E.g.: feature requests, bug fixes, etc.
- Create POCs around tools that we might be interested in using
What do you really do at work?
- Pair-program and migrate existing projects to a new tool that we bought recently, Metaflow
- Maintain internal tools & utility libraries that we built for our Data Science Team. E.g.: feature requests, bug fixes, etc.
- Create POCs around tools that we might be interested in using
What tools/apps do you use at work?
- Outerbounds managed Metaflow – for our data science pipelines
- Projen – a templating tool to build and manage our custom project template
- uv – a fast Python package manager
- ruff – a fast Python linter & code formatter
- OhMyZsh – for our shell
- VS Code
- GitHub Copilot
- ChatGPT
What tools/apps do you use at work?
- Outerbounds managed Metaflow – for our data science pipelines
- Projen – a templating tool to build and manage our custom project template
- uv – a fast Python package manager
- ruff – a fast Python linter & code formatter
- OhMyZsh – for our shell
- VS Code
- GitHub Copilot
- ChatGPT
What skills are necessary to do your job?
To be able to figure out unfamiliar things, whether it be a new tool, a new library, or a new concept. You must also know how to communicate effectively.
What skills are necessary to do your job?
To be able to figure out unfamiliar things, whether it be a new tool, a new library, or a new concept. You must also know how to communicate effectively.
Biggest eye-opening since you started this job.
You hardly do the shiny things that you see in the job descriptions.
Biggest eye-opening since you started this job.
You hardly do the shiny things that you see in the job descriptions.
Most challenging part of your job that people often don’t see from the outside.
Teaching others. Making sure your tools get adopted.
Data Scientists tend to be more focused on business needs than engineering. As a Platform Engineer, I need to educate them about our tools and the engineering decisions that we made while standing up the platform.
Most challenging part of your job that people often don’t see from the outside.
Teaching others. Making sure your tools get adopted.
Data Scientists tend to be more focused on business needs than engineering. As a Platform Engineer, I need to educate them about our tools and the engineering decisions that we made while standing up the platform.
