Olukunle Owolabi

Biography

Olukunle Owolabi is an AI Engineer within Meta AI where he supports large scale AI products. His experience spans LLMs, recommender systems, anomaly and fraud detection, forecasting, and optimization. In his earlier stint at Meta, he worked in the infrastructure space developing efficient ML driven systems for MySQL, edge data, and RIM. Between those two roles, he led applied AI, recommender systems, and fraud detection efforts at Mindbody. He received the inaugural UChicago Rising Stars in Data Science award and is a AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialist. His interests are in real world applications of ML and using data for good.

Sessions

1. What's Next After LLMs? Building AI Products at Scale

   Tue, Nov 3, 11:10 AM – 11:55 AM CT

   Track Engineering

   Dr. Olukunle Owolabi, ML Engineer at Meta AI, has taken products from zero to production at scale inside one of the largest AI organizations in the world. This session covers what nobody tells you about building real AI products: aligning stakeholders early, why your eval framework matters more than your model choice, and the privacy and cost tradeoffs behind decisions that look purely technical.