A few months ago, a friend asked me to review her résumé. She had submitted more than 300 job applications and was barely getting any responses. I knew her work. She’s thoughtful, highly capable, and exactly the kind of engineer I’d jump at the chance to hire. So when she told me she wasn’t...
The conventional playbook for engineering growth comes from companies like Google and Facebook; places optimizing for massive scale. But many of us work in B2B, where the challenges are fundamentally different. Through many conversations with junior engineers over the years, I've seen the...
PhD lessons and reflections on building user-centric machine learning systems. Insights from research in ML systems, LLM serving, and federated learning at the University of Michigan.
A career plan: we should all have one, right? But it can be hard to know where to start, or what you should do with it once you’ve made it. This can be especially challenging when you’re just starting off in your career – you manager asks what you want from your job, and don’t really know what you...