Hi Hao,

I am interested in this project, if you need a champion or mentor, I can help.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:24 AM Hao Xu <sduxu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear ASF Community,
>
> I’m writing to propose a new project at Apache Software Foundation. A little 
> bit about myself, I’m currently a senior software engineer in the Affirm ML 
> Platform team (possibly switching soon), and have around 5 years experience 
> in a couple startups, all working in the Data and Machine Learning 
> infrastructure.
> Over the past few years I’ve seen a general pattern arising in many companies 
> to build the ML infrastructure, especially on the feature store 
> <https://www.featurestore.org/>. And I have built similar products across all 
> my previous and current companies, including in-house solutions, using the 
> 3rd-party vendor: https://www.tecton.ai/ <https://www.tecton.ai/>, open 
> source project: https://github.com/feast-dev/feast 
> <https://github.com/feast-dev/feast> and https://github.com/feathr-ai/feathr 
> <https://github.com/feathr-ai/feathr>.
> But still those products are not able to well resolve the most important part 
> of a feature store: transformation, or we can call it featurization.
> So I’m proposing a new podling project - Featurizer (name can change) to 
> build an open source feature platform - aims to address the challenges of 
> feature engineering in machine learning by developing a software framework 
> that can automatically extract relevant features from raw data.It will 
> provide a wide range of featurization algorithms that can be customized and 
> combined to fit the specific needs of different applications. And by 
> leveraging three types of features: request based real time feature, stream 
> feature, and batch feature, the framework is supposed to run on different 
> processor engines such as apache spark, Flink, Beam, or microservices etc.
> I’m still new to podling here, I did few contributions before but it’s the 
> first time proposing a project. So I’m looking for suggestions, feedbacks, 
> champions and mentors to help on starting the project.
>
> Thanks
>


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Best wishes!
CalvinKirs

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