SF Scala: Manasi Vartak 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! ----- Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta.ai (www.verta.ai), an MIT-spinoff building software to enable high-velocity machine learning. Manasi previously worked on deep learning for content recommendation as part of the feed-ranking team at Twitter and dynamic ad-targeting at Google. Conrado Miranda is the CTO at Verta.AI. Conrado has a PhD in Machine Learning and a focus on building platforms for AI. He was the tech lead for the Deep Learning platform at Twitter’s Cortex, where he designed and led the implementation of TensorFlow for model development and PySpark for data analysis and engineering. He also led efforts on NVIDIA’s self-driving car initiative, including the Machine Learning platform, large scale inference for the Drive stack, and build and CI for Deep Learning models.