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Noah Gift

Noah Gift is a lecturer at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, MSBA program, the Graduate Data Science program, MSDS at Northwestern; and the Graduate Information and Data Science Program at UC Berkeley. He is teaching and designing graduate machine learning, AI, Data Science, and Cloud Architecture courses. These responsibilities include leading a multi-cloud certification initiative for students.


Noah is a Python Software Foundation Fellow, AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Machine Learning, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Big Data-Specialist, AWS Certified Machine Learning-Specialist, AWS Academy Accredited Instructor, Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, and Microsoft MTA on Python.


Noah was selected to the SME Machine Learning team due to accomplishments in the area of Machine Learning on the AWS platform. He has published close to 100 technical publications, including two books on subjects ranging from Cloud Machine Learning to DevOps. Gift received an MBA from UC Davis; an M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Cal State, Los Angeles; and a B.S. in Nutritional Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Currently, he is consulting startups and other companies on Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture, and CTO-level consulting as the founder of Pragmatic AI Labs. His most recent book is Pragmatic AI: An Introduction to Cloud-Based Machine Learning (Pearson, 2018).