Emeli Dral

Emeli Dral is co-founder and CTO of Evidently AI, an open-source platform for evaluating and monitoring ML and LLM systems. A former chief data scientist at Yandex Data Factory, she co-builds tools meant for practitioners who already ship models under real constraints.

Yandex Data Factory to open source

Dral led dozens of applied ML projects across industries before co-founding Evidently. Speaker bios for PyData, MLconf, and Data Natives stress that practitioner path and her teaching of large open data-science courses.

Building Evidently

Evidently ships reports and monitors for data quality, drift, and model performance, with growing LLM evaluation features. The company stays open-source-forward while offering a cloud product for teams that want hosted workflows.

On monitoring as a habit

Her talks treat monitoring as something teams schedule and review, not a one-time model-card exercise. That CTO voice - curriculum author, applied lead, then product builder - is the through-line of Evidently's public story.