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Welcoming Ari Bennett to the Chalk team today! Ari will be our first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer to build scalable and automated systems across the entire (and rapidly growing!) Chalk customer base. We're so pysched to have you aboard!

It’s been a busy summer for our engineering team here at Chalk! 😎 Check out our Summer Product Update summarizing some of the exciting things our engineers have shipped recently! Highlights include: -A gRPC engine that enhances performance 2x through improved data serialization, efficient data transfer, and a migration to our C++ server -Using SQL in offline queries so teams can pass spine sql queries to offline queries instead of passing input data directly -Adding heartbeat monitoring for long–running queries to our observability stack! …..and more! Read the full article to learn more about what else we’ve built! Link to blog in comments 🚀

Machine learning has long found itself in the toolkit of many fraud and risk engineering teams. Yet dated and underpowered tooling has often left ML teams plagued with headaches that have them worrying more about infrastructure than iterating. Today on The Chalkboard, we break down how leveraging a feature store drastically simplifies shipping production-grade fraud models. Check out “Feature Store at Work: A Tutorial on Fraud and Risk”! Link in comments!

Congratulations to Chalk partners Melio, MoneyLion, Ramp, and Socure for being featured on the world's top 250 fintech companies of 2024! We're so excited to build alongside companies that push the envelope of the newest applications of ML/AI each and every day.

Announcing two new additions to the Chalk team! Welcoming Amy N. - our first Developer Advocate. We’re thrilled to have Amy onboard to tell Chalk's story and engage the wider ML/AI community. And Chase Haddleton, who will be joining the rest of our amazing engineering org in the SF office. Welcome to the team! We can't wait to start building with you! 🚀

Today is a big day for Chalk! We're super excited to announce our second office in New York City! With the opening of Chalk NY, we are able to tap the awesome talent the East Coast has to offer, and help foster the burgeoning AI and ML community. We are hiring across the board from SWEs to MLEs to GTM - if you're interested in joining us here in Chalk NY please check out chalk.ai/careers.

We are thrilled to welcome two amazing new members to the team. Marta Adiatoulin, our amazing Office Manager, joined last month and has already done amazing work both in the SF office, and helping us find a new space in NYC. Thank you, Marta and welcome! Brian Sussman, CPA just joined us this week as our Operations Associate. He will be helping with our finances, operations, and many other wonderful things. Brian really impressed the team with his personalized emails and videos about why he wanted to work at Chalk. It certainly got our attention. Welcome to the team, Brian!

On this week’s Chalkboard, MLEs Samuel Mignot and Melanie Chen published an architectural deep dive of all things feature store. If you’re curious how a feature can empower production ML data teams to innovate faster, collaborate better, and unlock new heights in delivering high-performing models, check it out! #featurestore #machinelearning

Thank you for the shout-out Sapphire Ventures!

We're super excited to announce that this morning CB Insights named Chalk to its 2024 AI 100. Alongside Databricks, Chalk was recognized alongside Databricks as one the leading ML / AI Development Platforms globally. You can read more in our blog post below!