I write about technology and engineering leadership — from how LLMs work under the hood to how to grow as an empathetic, high-performance leader.
Subscribe on Substack ↗Deep dives into how technical systems work — currently focused on large language models and cloud infrastructure.
How transformers learn which words in a sequence matter for understanding each other — the mechanism that makes LLMs actually work.
Why transformers need explicit position information, and how positional encoding injects sequence order into a model that otherwise treats tokens as a bag of words.
The first step in understanding how LLMs work — how text gets broken down into tokens, and how those tokens become the dense numerical representations that models actually compute on.
A practical guide to setting up Google Cloud Platform for an organization — resource hierarchy, IAM structure, billing, and the decisions that are hard to undo later.
What a VPC actually is, how it controls network traffic, and the key concepts — subnets, routing, firewall rules — that every engineer working with cloud infrastructure should understand.
A practical walkthrough of running a Java application in production using Supervisor for process management and setting up log rotation to keep your server from running out of disk.
Reflections on what it means to lead well — the mindset, the hard parts, and the things that don't show up on a career ladder.
More engineering leadership writing coming soon.
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