Bay Area AI: Varant Zanoyan, Zipline at Airbnb

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! ----- Zipline is Airbnb’s soon to be open-sourced data management platform specifically designed for ML use cases. It has taken the task of training data generation from months to days and offers data management solutions from model training to serving. This talk will cover the framework at a high level, focusing on the specific challenges of data engineering for ML, and how Zipline provides a solution. Speaker Bio: Varant Zanoyan is a software engineer on the Machine Learning Infrastructure team at Airbnb where he focuses on Zipline, a data management framework for Machine Learning. Previously, he solved data infrastructure problems at Palantir Technologies.