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AI Engineering

Building Production‑Ready RAG

I’ve spent a good part of my career delivering distributed systems, and I’m only now beginning to explore agentic AI applications. Along the way I’ve learned that the distance between a flashy prototype and a production‑ready system can be measured in headaches. Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)

AI Engineering

Building a Self‑Service Chat Interface: A Primer on Vector Embeddings and Semantic Search

I’ve spent years watching business teams wait on analysts to pull a report or build yet another dashboard. As an engineering leader, those delays used to frustrate me just as much as they frustrated them. The promise of self‑service analytics isn’t just about convenience; it’s about

Leadership

Creating Safe Spaces for Ideas

One of the most important responsibilities of an engineering leader is to create an environment where people feel safe to share their ideas. You can have the smartest engineers and the most ambitious roadmap, but if your team doesn’t believe it’s safe to speak up you’ll never

Life

The Moment My Daughter Taught Me True Success

A few weeks ago, my 5-year-old daughter made me realize I’d let career success become my life’s focus —until she challenged it. Here’s what happened: After dinner, as I instinctively opened my laptop to check up on work, she asked, ‘Why are you working?’ My answer—money

Building Production‑Ready RAG

Building a Self‑Service Chat Interface: A Primer on Vector Embeddings and Semantic Search

Creating Safe Spaces for Ideas

The Moment My Daughter Taught Me True Success

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