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Technical CEO and co-founder of Quesma. Follow for data insights. Prev 10 years at Sumo Logic (0 to $300mln ARR), Meta and NVIDIA CUDA.
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All you need to make founder happy is a meeting with ideal customer persona (ICP) with some sense of urgency.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

SysOps/DevOps meetup at Allegro. Will be speaking about Observability Query Languages.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Two great summaries of 2024, databases and LLMS: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/... simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Happy new year! Last year at Quesma we went from zero to one: No team -> eight of us No real code -> working product used by a few on prod Virigin company with $2.5mln funding -> some revenue, low burn The biggest lesson is to keep shipping while talking to users.

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All set with Advent of Code! 50 stars.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

The penultimate day (day 24) of the Advent of Code, part 2, is tedious but doable with a tiny trick. I am glad I know a thing or two about hardware. I am impatiently waiting for the final puzzle.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

One star was missing in Advent of Code, though on day 21, part 2 was somewhat hard by my standards. I have an idea how to solve it, though there are a couple of tricks. Am I getting less technical?

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Back in the Advent of Code game. I’ve caught up with my delay.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Startups in ZIRP, 2022: Bragging how big their teams are and how fast they hire. Startups in 2024: Bragging how small their team is. E.g. Quesma is in that camp. Converse job ad:

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

In startups, the highs can be incredibly rewarding, while the lows can be deeply challenging, but both are part of the experience.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Day 14, part 2 of the #AdventOfCode, is my favourite so far. In changing ASCII art, find a Christmas tree. I love that spec; it matches the reality.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Halfway through #AdventOfCode 2024, 22 stars so far: adventofcode.com/2024/day/11

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Native support for Iceberg has been announced in S3: aws.amazon.com/s3/features/...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Besides generating social media buzz, there is rarely an upside to being obsessed about past mishaps. Life is short. Move on. The next thing can be huge. No point in wasting your neural net cycles on that; you need all of them for the next big thing.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

AI saved my day when I was exporting invoices from accounting system. Still I get best results when I micro-manage AI aggresively. Any time I trust AI too much, it ends up poorly.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

In the spirit of Thanksgiving engineering teams across the globe should do a thankfulness exercise. During daily or status each member says what they are thankful for. Simple but works.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Most PMs hate refactoring, but our PM at Quesma asked for that. Why? 1. Good overall velocity. 2. Paid clients, so we have to graduate from early-startup mode. 3. One architecture that would cover more use cases.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Full room at DSS conference for my talk about data trends in 2024.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Adam Szymanski, CTO & Founder of Oxla at Data Science Summit Main Stage.

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“Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my life looks like.” ChatGPT

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Speaking tomorrow at Data Science Summit: What’s New in Data Platforms for 2024?

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Time to come home from a trip to the USA.

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