SF Scala: Evan R. Sparks Interview

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Evan R. Sparks is co-founder and CEO of Determined AI, a software company that makes machine learning engineers and data scientists fantastically more productive. While earning his PhD in Computer Science in Berkeley's AMPLab, he contributed to the design and implementation of much of the large-scale machine learning ecosystem around Apache Spark, including MLlib and KeystoneML. Prior to Berkeley, Evan worked in quantitative finance and web intelligence. He also holds an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.