leadership
(20)ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
03 Nov 2024  ·  10 min  ·  machinelearning engineering production leadership
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
07 Jul 2024  ·  21 min  ·  machinelearning career leadership
Challenges and lessons from deploying LLM experiences: evals, scalability, guardrails.
31 May 2024  ·  2 min  ·  llm engineering production leadership
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
12 May 2024  ·  1 min  ·  llm engineering production leadership
End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
05 Feb 2023  ·  7 min  ·  mechanism leadership
Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
08 Jan 2023  ·  3 min  ·  leadership misc
I'm heading into a team lead role and would like to define the vision and roadmap.
18 Feb 2022  ·  3 min  ·  leadership datascience career 📬
Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
04 Jul 2021  ·  9 min  ·  leadership career
We discussed about how to build and run data teams and engage better with business.
28 Mar 2021  ·  10 min  ·  datascience leadership
Short vs. long-term gain, incremental vs. disruptive innovation, and resume-driven development.
21 Mar 2021  ·  12 min  ·  datascience machinelearning leadership
What I learned about hiring and training, and fostering innovation, discipline, and camaraderie.
31 Jan 2021  ·  16 min  ·  leadership datascience
As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders.
04 Oct 2020  ·  13 min  ·  writing career leadership
My chat with James Le about my experience, leadership, agile, ML in production, writing, and more.
03 Sep 2020  ·  17 min  ·  datascience leadership career lazada
Why (and why not) be more end-to-end, how to, and Stitch Fix and Netflix's experience
09 Aug 2020  ·  17 min  ·  datascience machinelearning leadership 🔥
Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why.
07 Jun 2020  ·  10 min  ·  mechanism agile leadership datascience
Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
03 Oct 2019  ·  3 min  ·  machinelearning engineering leadership
Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
21 Jun 2018  ·  8 min  ·  datascience leadership lazada
Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
12 May 2018  ·  5 min  ·  leadership datascience lazada
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
25 Sep 2017  ·  5 min  ·  leadership datascience lazada
If things are not failing, you're not innovating enough. - Elon Musk
19 Feb 2017  ·  3 min  ·  leadership datascience lazada
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