Episode 05 – Scalable Serverless Solutions and Products
Welcome to the Vast Value A Podcast by Vamstar. This episode is a discussion on scalable serverless solutions and products. In this episode you’ll hear from Vamstar’s CTO of Data Science and Architecture, Richard Freeman, and Vamstar’s CTO of Software and Product, Vishesh Duggar.
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About the speakers
Richard Freeman
CTO of Data Science and Architecture
Richard has over 17+ years industry experience delivering B2B and B2C big data, complex integration and data science projects across sectors including Fortune Global 500 companies when he was at Capgemini for six years.Richard is co-founder and CTO for Architecture and Data Science at Vamstar, leading the hands-on delivery, architecture and data science of the platform that predicts and matches public contracts for healthcare suppliers. The platform includes in-house big data pipelines, custom NLP models, novel machine learning models and working with leading Universities on novel Innovate UK funded research projects. He is also an independent AWS solutions architect, data science expert, and technical advisor for various companies, startups and VCs.Before co-founding Vamstar, Richard was at JustGiving for six years, leading the technical delivery of the data science powered consumer products and platform that raised an additional $20M for good causes in the first year of deploying data science in product in 2013, later shown at Microsoft Build and Future Decoded Keynotes. He then led the delivery of the in-house AWS-based data science and analytics RAVEN platform supporting data from the 26M users at JustGiving for campaign management, clickstream analytics and fraud detection products powered-by graph analytics, machine learning and natural language processing which included a collaboration with leading academics.He has an MEng in computer systems engineering and PhD (Manchester) in neural networks, machine learning and natural language processing. Active blogger, international speaker and author of a book and several video courses available on Packt, Udemy, and O’Reilly Safari. Over the years he has presented and shared his experience at many high profile conferences including AWS Re:Invent, AI Summit and Meetups.
Vishesh Duggar
CTO ofย Software and Product
Vishesh Duggar is the co-founder and CTO of Software and Product of Vamstar. He has more than 17+ years of experience in software development and delivery, including 8 years in healthcare. Has brought close to 20 products to market both B2B and B2C across markets like US, Europe and India. Vishesh has also served as a CTO to multiple organisations advising them on technology roadmap, strategy, architecture and scaling their engineering teams. He has extensive experience in taking products from an idea stage to market and scaling them.
