PyData Amsterdam 2024

Marc Palyart

Marc Palyart is the Director of Data Science at Malt, the freelancer marketplace, where he leads the search and matching team. With over a decade of data-wizardry under his belt, he's ventured into the depths of academia and scaled the heights of industry where he's had the pleasure of collaborating with some truly remarkable people.

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Sessions

09-20
11:50
35min
Retrieve me if you can: SLM-powered retrieval to scale freelancers matching at Malt
Marc Palyart, Warren Jouanneau

This talk unveils Malt's secret weapon for highly efficient freelancer matching - a powerful neural retriever. We'll showcase how Small Language Models (SLMs) help us instantly connect companies with their ideal freelancers. Discover how our retriever was built, deployed with a vector database and optimized to minimize resource consumption.

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