Noah Gift

Noah Gift is a distinguished technology leader and founder of Pragmatic AI Labs with a remarkable 30-year career spanning film, TV, telecom, social networks, startups, and big data, currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at Duke University. As an AWS ML Hero and Python Software Foundation Fellow, he has authored best-selling books through O'Reilly and Pearson on DevOps, MLOps, data engineering, and cloud computing that are widely adopted by major universities. His expertise in MLOps, data engineering, cloud architecture, and Rust programming has led him to teach thousands of students across prestigious institutions including Duke, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and UC Davis, while also collaborating with Caltech and JPL on automated IT systems. Gift's impact extends beyond academia through his work as a startup CTO, his role in developing scalable distributed systems, and his contributions as a keynote speaker at conferences focused on cloud development and ethical AI use, holding certifications from AWS, Google, and Microsoft, and having published over 100 technical works while conducting workshops for organizations like NASA, PayPal, and PyCon.