Kawandeep Virdee

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I ideate, design, and build apps that invite people to be expressive and creative, and I regularly organize meetups and give talks about my work in technology and creativity. I'm currently building out future ideas in the AI space, as a creative technologist at Google Labs. Experienced in product, development, and community — I thrive in 0-1 projects, ramping up and launching new initiatives. These include launching topics across Medium (ML and scaling curation), starting up Medium's platform writer initiatives, and creating Cards, Embedly's most popular and easy-to-use product. Previously, I was a data scientist at the New England Complex Systems Institute, awarded a patent in HCI and producing research in social systems. My interest in tech led to me join Embedly as a machine learning engineer, soon leading product and strategy, ramping up the product, design, devrel, and marketing functions. In 2016 I joined Medium via acquisition of Embedly. There I was a product manager for three years before founding an initiative to build a stronger connection with creators across the platform, which I led for two years. I launched the machine learning team, launching topic classification to

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