About

research at Databricks

Freddie Vargus

I work on the research team at Databricks, continually improving data agents.

Previously co-founder & CTO at Quotient AI (acquired by Databricks), at GitHub working on Copilot — evals & infra for tab completion and Chat — and open research with Cohere Labs on the Aya Project: designed, built, and scaled the backend for an open annotation platform supporting 3,000+ contributors and 300,000+ annotations for multilingual instruction tuning.

Other past work:

  • ML platform for advertising optimization and forecasting
  • risk management and pricing APIs for grain farmers
  • algorithmic trading platform — integrated 3rd-party datasets for quants; core contributor & maintainer of Zipline, an open source backtester