Jeff Fletcher is the Director of Field Engineering, Machine Learning at Astronomer where he helps customers orchestrate machine learning pipelines as part of their Modern Data Orchestration platform. Previously he was a machine learning specialist at Cloudera. Before that he led a product development team at Dimension Data, designed and implemented internet services at Verizon Business and founded Antfarm, South Africa’s first streaming company. He has a side hobby doing dataviz and was shortlisted for an Information Is Beautiful award. Jeff holds a degree in electrical engineering from Wits and plays bass and instructs synthesizers for One Might Atom.