Alok is an author, speaker, open source contributor and a ML practitioner. He is currently leading the India Innovation center at Publicis Sapient to leverage emerging technologies to solve real world challenges. He has extensive experience in leading strategic initiatives and driving cutting edge fast-paced data driven solutions ranging from products to platforms. His work has won several reputed awards. The inspiration to write the book on full-stack ML came from the observation of the struggle of scaling, productioning ML systems and teams. Beyond work, He is passionate about democratizing knowledge.He manages multiple not-for-profit learnings and creative groups in NCR. He can be reached at linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aloksaan/) and twitter (https://twitter. com/Aloksaan).