Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + Chronon

Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + Chronon

Author: Demetrios June 17, 2026 Duration: 51:27

Zipline Roundtable episode: Building Real-Time ML Systems with Zipline + ChrononJoin the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletterMLOps GPU Guide: https://go.mlops.community/gpuguideBig shout-out to ZiplineAI for the collaboration!// AbstractReal-time ML use cases like personalization and risk decisioning come with a unique set of challenges: serving fresh feature values at low latency for inference, generating temporally consistent backfills for training, and building complex chains of on-demand, batch, and streaming transformations. In this roundtable, practitioners from Intuit, CreditKarma, Depop, and OpenAI share how they use Zipline and the OSS Chronon project to solve these challenges and deploy real-time ML use cases in production.// BioGerman KrikorianGerman is a Software Engineer on the Feature Platform team at Credit Karma. Since joining the company during the early development of its recommendation system, they have played a key role in building and scaling the platform over the years. Their work focuses on feature pipelines and the feature store, which serves as critical infrastructure supporting numerous teams and business verticals across the organization.Ben MagyarBen is an engineer at Depop working on ML and data systems. Before Depop, he worked on Search at Etsy. Most of his work is around the infrastructure and operational problems that come with running ML systems at scale.Raj KatakamRaj architects ML Infrastructure at Credit Karma (Intuit). He holds a Master's in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and a B.Tech in EECE from IIT Kharagpur. His interests include ML Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Real-Time Data Processing, and Generative AI. His current focus is on providing feature engineering platforms, production GenAI infrastructure, vector databases, ML model serving, and MLOps pipelines for fraud detection, personalized recommendations, financial insights, and model explainability.Mick JermsurawongLed Flyte ML training/experimentation at Stripe, and now led Chronon for ML features at OpenAIHosted by Demetrios// Related LinksWebsite: https://zipline.ai/https://chronon.ai/~~~~~~~~ ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ~~~~~~~Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://go.mlops.community/TYExploreJoin our Slack community [https://go.mlops.community/slack]Follow us on X/Twitter [@mlopscommunity](https://x.com/mlopscommunity) or [LinkedIn](https://go.mlops.community/linkedin)] Sign up for the next meetup: [https://go.mlops.community/register]MLOps Swag/Merch: [https://shop.mlops.community/]Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: /dpbrinkmConnect with German on LinkedIn: /e2zdkwh8cxghydg/Connect with Raj on LinkedIn: /rajkiran2190Connect with Mick on LinkedIn:/mick-jermsurawong/


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