Books by Valliappa Lakshmanan

Valliappa (Lak) Lakshmanan is a Tech Lead for Big Data and Machine Learning Professional Services on Google Cloud Platform. His mission is to democratize machine learning so that it can be done by anyone anywhere using Google's amazing infrastructure (i.e., without deep knowledge of statistics or programming or ownership of lots of hardware). Jordan is engineering director for the core BigQuery team. He was one of the founding engineers on BigQuery, and helped grow it to be one of the most successful products in Google's Cloud Platform. He wrote the first book on BigQuery, and has also spoken widely on the subject. Jordan has twenty years of software development experience, ranging from Microsoft Research to Machine Learning startups.