Maria Vechtomova is a co-founder of Cauchy, where she specializes in AI strategy, AI engineering, and AI training. She has worked in data and AI since 2014, across large corporate organizations and in roles ranging from data analyst and data scientist to MLOps tech lead. She has focused on MLOps for most of her career, since long before the term was widely used.

Maria believes that AI delivers value only when it is in production, integrated into business processes, and supported by reliable systems. She is passionate about teaching best practices and has taught MLOps and LLMOps to more than three hundred students through online cohort-based courses. She has extensive experience with

Databricks and has been recognized as a Databricks MVP and MLflow Ambassador.