Episode 2 - Richard Gale speaks to Aaron McKee, a CS graduate from Berkeley, and one of the first engineers to implement semantic web search using Lucene/SolR at Ask Jeeves in 2006. McKee then went on to run Engineering for Skimlinks and Quantast; a global leader of analysing Audiences using AI. Currently CTO of Blis, world leaders in Geo-location Ad Tech. Topics of discussion include ad tech, data science, and hiring great engineers.

Timestamps:0:00 - Introductions1:15 - Aaron's background as a software engineer and a Berkeley graduate8:43 - Ask.com, and how to solve search problems before machine learning12:17 - Moving to London13:36 - Struq and Ad Tech18:45 - Blis22:49 - The future of Ad Tech, challenges, and regulation29:02 - The data science industry32:55 - Deep learning in industry39:11 - Hiring great engineers49:09 - Advice to your former self