Financial Machine Learning Ops

Author

Yi Li

Published

October 7, 2025

Preface

Data scientists used to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. I was attracted by this saying at that time and it was one of the reason that I chose data scientist as a career after graduation. One of the most illustrative figure to describe the data scientists’ job is the Venn diagram with the intersection of domain knowledge, math and statistics, and computer science. During the first two decades in the 21st century, the arguably most important and time consuming thing in data scientists’ mind is feature engineering and tunning parameters, while the arguably most important and time consuming thing in data scientists’ real life is cleaning data.

However, with the rapid growth in the tech field,