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Scaling AI at Chick-fil-A with Korri Jones
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Welcome to Mining Your Own Business Podcast. Each episode will bring in data and analytics gurus from around the world as they regale us with their data analytics stories and enlighten us with their secrets for how to turn data into actionable insights.
In this podcast, we are joined by Korri Jones, A Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer and Innovation Coach at Chick-Fil-A. He discusses his background and his career journey that lead him to be a Machine Learning Engineer working at Chick-Fil-A.he also talks about what it is to be a Machine Learning Engineer and what are the usual works and tasks every day. He also shares how he manages his teams such as the Data Science Team and the Data Engineering Team to be more productive and dynamic with each other. He also answered the big question in this show, given an ideal scenario, what would you focus on? Lastly, Korri describes what it looks like working with Chick-Fil-A.
Key Takeaways
What is a machine learning engineer and when they get involved in a project
The value that an innovation coach brings to a team
Where project ideas originate & how they are decided upon
How they operationalize projects at Chick-fil-A
The unique culture of the Chick-fil-A team
Quotes
I want people to do what they are hired to do and really just crush it. I don't need a data scientist doing all of the engineering work. I don't need the engineer doing all the data science work. - Korri
Some people talk about thinking outside the box. We help to make sure that there is no box in the first place. And so you don't have to try to think inside or outside of a box. - Korri
Featured in this Episode
Evan Wimpey
Director of Analytics Strategy at Elder Research
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-wimpey-40469b47
Website: www.elderresearch.com
Korri Jones
Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Innovation Coach at Chick-Fil-A
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/korri-jones-mba-780ba56
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:39 Korri's Background
04:00 Korri's Career as a Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer
07:01 Balancing the technical side and business side
09:01 What is an innovation coach?
11:36 Getting the ideas from the data science team or others
14:02 When does a machine learning engineer get involved
16:44 How are projects decided upon
19:11 If there was a magic "analytic success" button, where would Korri use it?
22:51 Working With Chick-Fil-A
25:10 Outro
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