Hi there 👋,
I am Matt Delacour and currently work at CoinList as their Head of Data.
Previously I was at Shopify where I started as a Data Scientist and then moved to a Data engineering position in the Machine Learning platform team.
Quick timeline
March 2022 - In March 2022, I joined CoinList to lead their effort in building a world class data team. I’ve been curious about blockchain for a while and it was also a way to learn more about this industry.
August 2022 - The new Machine Learning platform used at Shopify (named Merlin) was officially released by my team in August 2022. Check out this awesome blog post wrote by my colleague Isaac. It took us ~1.5 year to get there.
November 2021 - I also created an open source plugin of Feast to make it compatible with Trino (see Shopify/feast-trino). This got moved to the official Feast repo afterwards.
Contributing to open source projects has been one of the most gratifying components of my work in 2021.
August 2021 - I gave a presentation about “How I contributed to scale Feast”. Through four concrete examples, I explained how I ended up refactoring a critical component of Feast (SQL template for offline queries) that can now handle billions of rows.
2021 - In 2021, I ended up becoming a core maintainer of Feast. I started with it by implementing it at Shopify as part of the effort of creating a brand new Machine Learning platform. Feast makes it easier to create ML pipelines by centralizing all the features needed.