scala.bythebay.io: Ascander Dost 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! ----- Ascander Dost Salesforce Lead Software Engineer Websitetwitter.com/dostintheshell Ascander is a lead engineer at SalesforceIQ, where he works on data processing infrastructure, extracting meaning from email messages, and creative cursing. He received a PhD in Linguistics from UC Santa Cruz a long time ago, but seems to have mostly recovered. He enjoys writing Scala, NLP, and riding motorcycles in anger.