Clicklease + Hopsworks: On-Demand Feature Life Cycle Management - Feature Store Summit 2025

Clicklease is a financial services company that offers equipment leasing to small businesses and they make use of ML to make predictions about policies, pricing, and risk, but they need to compute features on-demand when users interact with the platform. In this talk, we present our journey from computing real-time features using stored procedures to using Python to define and compute features at request time. We will look in detail at some of the requirements for on-demand transformation functions and how we leverage Hopsworks to support our ML platform. About the Speaker: Aaron Hunsaker is an experienced engineer with 5 years work on MLOps platforms. He is obsessed with engineering simplicity and performance in the ML systems he builds. He helped build the MLOps platform at Overstock before joining Clicklease in 2024.