Bettina Hermant

Bettina is a Senior Data Scientist at the BBC. Her team aims to use machine learning algorithms to provide a better experience to their audiences, mainly through personalisation. She works very closely with the Data Engineering, Editorial and Product teams. Bettina has mostly been involved in building a recommender system for production use for one of the main BBC products. The Machine Learning algorithm used is hybrid and the code is developed in Python. Google Cloud Platform tools are used to manage the resources and to store the data, Airflow for the automation, and Redis for serving. Bettina has been involved in all of the steps: from the algorithm development, to the engine productionisation, but also in making sure that the recommendations are compliant with the editorial policies and company values.