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Brainstation.io talk

·2 mins

Ask from the coordinator:

To break it down further, a potential format for the 1-hour session could be something like:  

- Introduction to yourself, your career journey, and your role at AWS
- A potential case study or work example, exemplifying how you utilize your skills at work
- Job search tips for when they eventually begin applying
- Q&A Portion

Flow:

  • Intro:
    • Major stages of my career and some of my mistakes along the way so that you can avoid those in your career.
  • Adobe and Snapdeal:
    • Adobe Story and e-commerce website: distributed systems and some frontend work.
    • Excited about technology but didn’t know expectations in a corporate environment.
      • They don’t teach you this in college.
    • Tip 1: Ask for feedback from well-intentioned peers.
  • Amazon:
    • 10+ years now. Won’t bore you with all the teams I’ve been part of, so just the interesting ones.
  • Lambda:
    • I joined because I was excited about the potential of serverless. However, a very new field for me and I struggled.
    • VM ballooning.
    • Tip 2:
      • How to make learning durable?
        • Code yourself. Even if you are following a tutorial, rewrite on your own.
        • Anki.
  • Lookout for Metrics:
    • Intentionality == “know what you’ll get out of a certain project”.
  • I work in SageMaker.
    • About SageMaker.
    • I-ML org: we provide cloud based IDEs - JupyterLab or VS Code - for ML.
    • Example of my work: Cosmos.
      • Tip 3: Work backwards from customers, not a solution == solution should follow the problem, not the other way around.