Adam Breindel is a consultant, instructor, and advisor to companies on data engineering and machine learning. Adam serves as Training Lead at Coiled Computing, helping clients successfully use Dask. He has also created and taught classes on data and ML for Databricks and O'Reilly, and brings real-world experience obtained in consulting throughout the world. His first full-time job in tech was on neural-net-based fraud detection deployed at North America's largest banks back in 1998. Adam holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a MA in Greek and Latin Classics from Brown University.