Food is a very personal choice. At iFood, we are obsessed about Customer Experience and want to make food discovery in the platform seamless and a delight to the consumer. We’ll also talk about our Journey, Learning and Challenges in building the Food Recommendation System using Sagemaker and Databricks. Do you know that feeling that an app knows exactly what you want and the marketing team must know you so well because that push notification read your mind and every list seems like it’s been tailor-made for you? Yep, it actually was.
Short Bio
Renan Oliveira is a Principal Data Scientist at iFood where he currently leads the RecSys and Search initiatives. He has over 10 years of experience working with AI and Big Data in companies like iFood, Globo.com, and Data Bootcamp. During that time, he has worked on a variety of business problems across different domains using techniques such as Machine Learning, Experimentation using A/B, Text Mining & Code Skills.