From Notebook to Production: Building End-to-End AI Systems - Mariano Semelman

Episode notes

In this talk, Mariano, Lead Data Scientist and ML Engineer at OLX, shares his journey building high-impact AI media solutions. We explore the transition from traditional e-commerce models to Generative AI and Agentic tools, focusing on how to take AI products from a notebook to full-scale production.You’ll learn about: How to master the full product cycle from requirement gathering to deployment. Using video-to-ad technology to automate car listings and seller experiences. Essential modern tools like FastAPI, Arize, and why UV is a game-changer. When to use LLMs versus specialized vision models like CLIP and YOLO. Why production pipelines are moving from Jupyter notebooks to CLI tools. How agentic coding and AI assistants are 10x-ing development speed. TIMECODES: 0:00 Community Introduction and Slack Engagement 4:16 Career Journey: From Argentina to Barcelona 7:16 Product-Driven AI vs.

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