Wall of Thoughts
Opinions, observations, and things I believe to be true. Subject to change.
My two heroes are Andrej Karpathy and Victor Wooten. One knows how to slap the bass and the other how to slap neural networks.
"Attention Is All You Need" is the most confidently non-academic title in ML history — and they earned it. They thought they were making translation faster; they accidentally built the foundation for everything that followed.
Putting Stripe live and seeing someone pay the very first dollar feels pretty amazing. Even just $1.
The best platform engineering isn't about infrastructure — it's about fearlessness. When your CI/CD, rollbacks, and observability are solid, engineers stop asking "is it safe to deploy?" and start shipping. My job is to make that fear disappear.
Dagster's asset-driven approach is genuinely revolutionary. Instead of thinking about tasks and dependencies, you think about the data assets you want to exist. The orchestrator figures out the rest. It flips the mental model from 'what do I run' to 'what do I want to be true.' Every data team will work this way eventually.