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Definitely not ... I am a SWE in a big company and working on ML projects for the past 4 years. We have a data scientist team which does the data exploration and comes up with a model. Their output would be a jupyter notebook.

Then we have a team of "Applied ML practitioners", which I am a part of, we productionize the jupyter notebook, by setting up pipelines, services etc. We understand ML algos, stats, probability etc, but not as much as our data scientist team does.

Having both in the same person would be good, but is not necessary.



My point isn’t the separation of duties, my point is that the people who productionize it also know a reasonable amount of theory.




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