Deep expertise in model deployment and scaling production ML serving systems Experience with versioning, rollouts, rollback strategies, and live experimentation Low-latency mindset for inference optimization (model graph, quantization, caching, batching, feature retrieval) Systems fluency: robust, high-performance code in Go, Rust, C++, or Java, and bridging to Python Operational maturity: monitoring drift, tracking model lineage, ensuring observability Infrastructure intuition: reproducible and portable serving systems Applied ML understanding: reasoning about model performance and trade-offs