My journey in its rawest form — Two years ago, I graduated college where I studied Economics and Finance. I was all set for a career in finance. Investment Banking and Global Markets — those were the dream jobs. …

Don’t take advice too literally — Misconception #1: Verbosity is King 👑 In my initial years of programming, I was taught to leave comments everywhere — be it defining a module, class, function, method or even within lines of code. …

And maybe why you shouldn’t too — The world advocates the hustle culture. That along with the “Quit your job to chase your dreams” mindset of millennials, the Great Resignation happened. Don’t get me wrong — I love writing and I also believe in side-hustling. …

Or a note-taking app like Notion or Obsidian — We’re not geniuses, duh. Unless you have a photographic memory and can remember all the language syntax and commands you’ve ever typed, including those crazy regex ones, you’d need a second (metaphorical) brain like Notion or Obsidian. No but seriously, as engineers, we absorb new knowledge on a daily basis…

Perspective of a ML engineer — Machine Learning (ML) engineers have (unofficially) claimed the crown of being (one of) “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”, overtaking the previous champions — Data Scientists. Even though ML engineers take on a multitude of roles depending on who you ask in which company, a ML engineer’s role still…

What I learned on the way to 30 years old — This article is inspired by Ryan Holiday, who recently wrote “35 Lessons on the Way to 35 Years Old”. I’ve recently turned 30 years old last month — it’s kind of a big ‘milestone’ I’d say, as you really start to pave your own path in your thirties and feel…

Tips no one told you as a beginner Vim-er (GIFs included) — For those of you who’ve been following me, you’d know that I’m a huge Vim n3rd. As such, I’ve decided to write a short article to list several Vim essentials that I think would be highly beneficial for beginners when first picking up Vim. Pre-requisites This article assumes that you have…

A Machine Learning Engineer’s perspective of Terraform — As a Machine Learning (ML) engineer, I’ve done many projects with various forms of infrastructure, but most are either hybrid or fully cloud-based. In all these projects, I’ve always found it frustrating that these cloud-based infrastructure were managed via custom scripts or using the graphical user interface (GUI)*. …

Spoiler: You don’t play enough games — Why Most People Don’t Use Vim Vim has been around for donkey years. It was, and still is, an extremely polarizing tool. Don’t just take it from me — even Google search results says so: