Leo Dirac started his career building software at big companies including Microsoft and Google.  In 2012 he fell in love with neural networks when he first saw AlexNet, and subsequently dedicated himself to applying deep learning. He spent six years at Amazon where he launched Amazon’s first deep learning projects for visual search, product similarity, and recommendations.  He was the lead engineer on AWS’s first ML service called Amazon Machine Learning, and used those lessons to design the core of AWS SageMaker, and led the teams that built SageMaker’s AutoML features including Automatic Model Tuning and AutoPilot.  Leo continues seeking ways to accelerate the pace of technological advancement for all of society.