mailshanx's comments

What do you mean by having an "intact career"? Did leaving too early harm your career, and if yes, how so?

Can you recommend any resources to learn this better?

Could you elaborate more on that or perhaps give specific illustrative examples of how one may do so? This will benefit a lot of us at FAANG. Thanks!

Something that always bothered me when I read posts on Google's blogs: why is it that it's always authored by a PM? Why can't perhaps a senior engineer also write an announcement post occasionally?

Yes, the names of the engineers on the team are present in the acknowledgement section: but, this is a single line at the bottom of the post, whereas the name of the PM and the fact that he is the author is featured prominently below the title. This pattern is common across many product/OSS library announcements.

Sure, one could argue that the PM has a holistic view of the product or library being announced, and that developing this perspective is in fact their job. But surely a sufficiently senior engineer can (and often does) have an equally holistic, or perhaps even more insightful overview. At least sometimes. Even if this were not the case, why not acknowledge everyone's contributions at the same place in the article?

I think this is symptomatic of the ubiquitous class divide between the "suits" and "nerds" in the corporate world.

Does Stripe pay at FAANG level? Even outside the USA?

Look at DataRobot - they are massively successful at this point, and I think the key is that they didn't release the source.

Open sourcing the core solution hugely dilutes your value proposition - I hope that you will reconsider your decision.

Congratulations, I read your comments on the Google Auto ML thread a few days ago with great interest.

If Auto ML has commercial value, why are you open-sourcing it?

I think it would be a bad idea to open-source your solution, unless you plan on competing on services, rather than an Auto ML product.

Thanks for taking the time to write it down - very fascinating indeed!

Do you know if there are any other markets other than the USA where a competent (but not necessarily celebrity-famous) dev can make 300-400k a year?

For many good devs, immigrating to the USA is close to impossible in these times. Would be nice to know if these kinds of salaries are attainable outside the states.

>> Its on the http://vanishingradient.net/ (now defunct), with the small "i"

Ah - thanks, its amazing how I tend to become "blind" to errors in my own writing!

Great point about the "cto" suffix! I once applied for a CTO position, and saved the tailored version of my resume at that time with a "cto" suffix. Since then I have been using modified versions of that resume, but I must get rid of the suffix now.

I held the top 1% rank in 2014. I'm not active on Kaggle anymore. They have since changed the way they calculate rankings, and you lose your rank if you don't stay active. As a result, while I still have my Kaggle profile, its now unranked. I figure its easier to explain this when asked, rather than link to a profile page that seems to contradict the claimed achievement.

Thank you so much, I appreciate it!

>> I see a few grammatical errors, "i"

Do you mean I'm using small-letter "i" somewhere? I triple-checked, but can't seem to find that anywhere?

>> If you use google link, I would suggest doing analytics tracking to see how many times its clicked

That's a great idea!

>> The "Subnero" link is broken by the way

Thanks for catching that!

>> Make sure the PDF is OCR readable, and make sure there is an accompaning .docx format as well

I suspect its not OCR readable, and there is no .docx version either - the disadvantages of making your resume with Latex!

Would you be so kind as to look at my resume and give some feedback? I know I'm an internet stranger asking for your time - I'd understand if you don't want to do it, but I'll be very grateful if you did! :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n41w2zja8au26wp/shankar_resume_cto...

Wouldn't you consider AI / ML to be a specialization of data science?

Could you share what company is this? Are you hiring?

Wow, that's an awesome salary! What do you do for a living, and how did you get there?

Is there a link to your project?

Interesting perspective! As an engineer contemplating SG, I would love to hear your Singapore story - what did you find there, and what did you eventually do?

Care to share your career story?

Do you have a link where we can learn more about you / your startup?

Do you know of anyone who has done this? I'd love to buy them coffee!