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Shashank Prasanna

Author: Shashank Prasanna

Shashank Prasanna is an AI & Machine Learning Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he focuses on helping engineers, developers and data scientists solve challenging problems with machine learning. Prior to joining AWS, he worked at NVIDIA, MathWorks (makers of MATLAB & Simulink) and Oracle in product marketing, product management, and software development roles. Shashank holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

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Why use Docker containers for machine learning development?

I like prototyping on my laptop, as much as the next person. When I want to collaborate, I push my code to GitHub and invite collaborators. And when I want to run experiments and need more compute power, I rent CPU and GPU instances in the cloud, copy my code and dependencies over, and run […]