I design, build, and operate machine learning systems that serve customers at scale. Currently, I'm a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon. Outside of work, I also...
05 Feb 2023
  ·  Mechanisms for Effective Technical Teams
22 Jan 2023
  ·  Mechanisms for Effective Machine Learning Projects
15 Jan 2023
  ·  Goodbye Roam Research, Hello Obsidian
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  ·  What To Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help
31 Jul 2022
  ·  Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
12 Jun 2022
  ·  Design Patterns in Machine Learning Code and Systems
19 Sep 2021
  ·  The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning
27 Jun 2021
  ·  System Design for Recommendations and Search
21 Feb 2021
  ·  Feature Stores: A Hierarchy of Needs
10 Jan 2021
  ·  Real-time Machine Learning For Recommendations
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  ·  Unpopular Opinion: Data Scientists Should be More End-to-End
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  ·  Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
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  ·  Data Science and Agile (What Works, and What Doesn't)
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  ·  The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning
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  ·  How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework
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  ·  What Machine Learning Can Teach Us About Life - 7 Lessons
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  ·  The 85% Rule: When Giving It Your 100% Gets You Less than 85%
applyingml
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Papers, guides, and interviews on how to apply ML effectively
ml-design-docs
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Template of design docs for machine learning systems
python-collab-template
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Template with tests, type checks, linting, etc.
papermill-mlflow
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Experimentation workflow for machine learning
1-on-1s
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Questions to ask during 1-on-1s, from my time as a manager
omscs-faq
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Georgia Tech Online Master's of Science in Computer Science
teardowns
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Surveys & deep dives of data/machine learning systems