Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL https://bit.ly/2LTonez. Mikhail Kourjanski focuses on the architectural approach towards PayPal’s internally built real-time service platform that leverages Machine Learning models and delivers performance and quality of decisions. This platform has established a balance between Big Data and sustainable support for a high volume of real-time decision requests. Filmed at qconnewyork.com. Mikhail Kourjanski is the lead data architect at PayPal, responsible for the data architecture of the PayPal real-time decisioning platform that handles billions of events per day and maintains dozens of petabytes of data. He has over 20 years of work experience, including high-tech software engineering, academic research, and consulting for the Financial Services industry.