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+name: Jeny De Figueiredo
+avatar: jeny_defigueiredo.png
+links:
+  - https://twitter.com/jendefig
+---
+
+Community Manager at [http://dvc.org](http://dvc.org)

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+title: February '21 Heartbeat
+date: 2021-02-16
+description: |
+  Monthly updates are here! Read all about our growing team, 
+  our CEO's interview on The New Stack, integration with spaCy and more!
+descriptionLong: |
+  Monthly updates are here! Read all about our growing team, 
+  our CEO's interview on The New Stack, integration with spaCy and more!
+picture: 2021-02-11/feb21cover.png
+author: jeny_defigueiredo
+commentsUrl: https://discuss.dvc.org/t/february-21-heartbeat/669
+tags:
+  - Heartbeat
+  - CML
+  - DVC
+  - DAGsHub
+  - spaCy
+  - ML Summit 2021
+  - Spell
+  - MLOps
+---
+
+## News
+
+Happy February! Here's all the news to keep you up to date.
+
+## We've hired and are still hiring!
+
+We have four new team members this month!
+
+[**Dave Berenbaum**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-berenbaum-20b6b424/) came
+to Iterative.ai by way of a
+[previous contribution](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/pull/2107) to our open
+source products while working as a Data Science Manager at Captial One. He joins
+the team as a Technical Product Manager. We are thrilled he's here!
+
+[**Batuhan Taskaya**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/batuhan-osman-taskaya-7803b61a0/)
+joins us as a DVC Software Engineer working on the Python core. Batuhan is
+excited to work on open source full time and we are excited to have him do so!
+
+[**Jeny De Figueiredo**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifer-de-figueiredo/) is
+involved in the Seattle area data science community at Data Circles and is a
+WiDS Puget Sound Ambassador. She joins us as our new Community Manager and is
+looking forward to further building and engaging the community in MLOps! (Hi!
+This is me. 🙋🏻‍♀️ I'll be writing Heartbeat!)
+
+[**Roger Parent**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogermparent/) has already been a
+big part of building DVC and [CML](https://cml.dev/). He has been a primary
+developer of a Visual Studio code extension that interfaces with the DVC Python
+application to provide an interface with the Experiments feature that's coming
+out with DVC 2.0. We are so excited to have him joining us full time as Software
+Engineer.
+
+![Alt Text](https://media.giphy.com/media/vAvWgk3NCFXTa/giphy.gif)
+
+## Open Positions
+
+We are on the hunt for a
+[TypeScript Front-End Engineer](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aT5HZYt4kAUxXqD4JNTe3jPDlVUwSmnEWDPR2QoKdvo/edit)
+to build SaaS and a VS Code UI for our popular machine learning tools: DVC and
+CML. The ML tools ecosystem is what JS space was 10 years ago. Come join us on
+this exciting project!
+
+Our search continues for a
+[Developer Advocate](https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/iterative-developer-advocate)
+to support and inspire developers by creating new content like blogs, tutorials,
+and videos - plus lead outreach through meetups and conferences.
+
+Does this sound like you or someone you know? Be in touch!
+
+## Iterative.ai Featured on The New Stack
+
+[Susan Hall](https://thenewstack.io/author/susanhall/) of
+[The New Stack.io](https://thenewstack.io/) interviewed our very own CEO,
+[Dmitry Petrov](https://twitter.com/fullstackml?lang=en), discussing the needs
+of ML engineers and how Iterative.ai makes tools to enable version control and
+CI/CD for versioning data and ML models.
+
+> "ML engineers, they still need collaboration. They need GitHub for
+> collaboration, they need this CI?CD system to resolve [issues] between each
+> other, between the team and productions system." - Dmitry Petrov
+
+<external-link
+href="https://thenewstack.io/iterative-ai-git-based-machine-learning-tools-for-data-engineers/"
+title="Learning Tools for ML Engineers"
+description="Susan Hall"
+link="thenewstack.io"
+image="/uploads/images/2021-02-11/newstack_image.png"/>
+
+## Workshops and Talks
+
+### Developer Advocacy for Data Science
+
+So you saw the post further up. 👆🏽 Curious about developer advocacy or what to
+look for in a hire for this position?
+[Elle O'Brien](https://twitter.com/drelleobrien?lang=en) dove into this recently
+with [Alexey Grigorev](https://twitter.com/Al_Grigor) (author of a
+[Data Science Bookcamp](https://mlbookcamp.com/))
+[in this podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv5W4jXk4P4) on
+[DataTalks.club](http://datatalks.club/) You can watch it here below. 👇🏼
+
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv5W4jXk4P4
+
+## From the Community
+
+As ever, we have much to share from the great citizens of the DVC community.
+
+### spaCy and DVC Integration
+
+If your NLP team uses spaCy to manage your projects, with spaCy's release of
+v3.0, you can now enjoy DVC integration to manage your workflow like Git! Check
+out the [documentation here](https://spacy.io/usage/projects#integrations) to
+streamline and track your process! 🏆
+
+<external-link
+href="https://spacy.io/usage/projects#integrations/"
+title="spaCy Integration"
+description="spaCy Integration with DVC"
+link="spacy.io"
+image="/uploads/images/2021-02-11/spacy_integration.png"/>
+
+### DagsHub and DVC Integrations
+
+This month two great articles came out regarding the integration of DAGsHub and
+DVC. First, this article:
+[Datasets Should Behave Like Git Repositories](https://dagshub.com/blog/datasets-should-behave-like-git-repositories/)
+walks you through the steps to use DVC in your data versioning. The following
+image shows the dependencies and how you simply need to do a `dvc update` each
+time your dataset or model changes to track the process.
+
+![](/uploads/images/2021-02-11/dags_diagram.png)
+
+### Did you say "Works Out of the Box?"
+
+Also from DAGsHub, by CEO [Dean Pleban](https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn),
+[Free Dataset & Model Hosting with Zero Configuration - Launching DAGsHub Storage](https://dagshub.com/blog/dagshub-storage-zero-configuration-dataset-model-hosting/)
+tells how their new DAGsHub storage is a DVC remote that requires zero
+configuration (!) and will allow for team and organization access controls as
+well as easy visibility.
+
+![Alt Text](https://media.giphy.com/media/Ftz07proVX6Rq/giphy.gif)
+
+### Model Management and ML Workflow Orchestration with DVC and Apache Airflow 🇩🇪 ❗️
+
+We're really excited about a German language workshop led by
+[Matthias Niehoff](https://twitter.com/matthiasniehoff)! The workshop will be a
+part of the ML Summit 2021 taking place April 19-21st, but registration closes
+February 18th. So time is ticking. ⏰ The Conference is online, but will be in
+German. For more info, head here 👉🏽 for the
+[Workshop Details](https://ml-summit.de/machine-learing/modellmanagement-und-ml-workflow-orchestrierung-mit-dvc-und-apache-airflow/).
+
+### "_The_ most popular 'N+1' tool used by teams on Spell"
+
+[Using DVC as a Lightweight Feature Store on Spell](https://spell.ml/blog/using-dvc-with-spell-YBHOChEAACgAaSmV)
+by [Aleksey Bilogur](https://twitter.com/ResidentMario) , reviews the process of
+using DVC with Spell for managing changing datasets, enabling team-wide data
+reproducibility and why Spell fans are DVC fans, and vice versa. 🔄
+
+![Alt Text](https://media.giphy.com/media/GM8PrUsm92hRC/giphy.gif)
+
+## Tweet Love ❤️
+
+https://twitter.com/mihail_eric/status/1357014486377324547?s=20
+
+You're all caught up! See you at the next Community Gems 💎!
+
+_Do you have any use case questions or need support? Join us in
+[Discord](https://discord.com/invite/dvwXA2N)!_
+
+_Head to the [DVC Forum](https://discuss.dvc.org/) to discuss your ideas and
+best practices._