Berlin Buzzwords 2026

Varant Zanoyan

Bio: Varant spent the last 13 years building data infrastructure for AI and ML at Airbnb and Palantir. During this time, he became one of the original authors of Chronon, the recently open sourced feature and embedding platform. Currently, he is Co-Founder of Zipline AI, which is building an enterprise platform around the project.


Session

06-09
11:10
40min
Real-Time ML Pipelines: Feature Chaining with Chronon
Varant Zanoyan

Modern ML applications demand features computed in near real-time with sub-100ms latencies. This talk dives into Chronon, an OSS feature platform bridging streaming data infrastructure and production ML. Using a two-tower search pipeline example, we'll show how we can chain embeddings with tabular features while minimizing hot-path computation.

Frannz Salon