Chris Aniszczyk

At the core of effective engineering leadership is the ability to stay connected with your team. This is perhaps the most challenging aspect because retaining the respect of your people is difficult unless you remain technically involved yourself. In my journey as an engineering leader, staying true to the individual contributor role that originally earned their respect has kept me close. This approach extends beyond technical expertise; it's about maintaining a deep connection with the core activities that propel product development forward at Gearflow. One of my biggest professional fears is becoming irrelevant or disconnected from my team and our work. This fear motivates me to continually reinvent and retool in response to market demands. Next month, I'll be sharing about my adventures generating synthetic data recently. And while I'm no expert when I start preparing for these talks, the process is incredibly valuable. It's less about delivering a perfect talk and more about how the preparation expands my thinking and exposes me to new capabilities. This helps me connect the dots to opportunities at Gearflow that bring real innovation to our customers. Speaking regularly holds me accountable and pushes me to learn ahead of the curve, ensuring I remain relevant and impactful day-to-day. Every talk is a journey of discovery, helping me to lead with humility, communicate clearly, and inspire a culture of innovation through a deep, technical understanding of our work.

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Very excited to give a virtual tech talk to the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers EAGE Local Chapter Houston. This talk will focus on data applications for the upstream oil & gas industry. If you want to see how data gets used from exploration to production, what the challenges are (hint: massive, messy, distributed), and how we solve these challenges, please register!

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Can you make an outdated car more modern? I’ve started reading Gregor Hohpe ‘s Platform Strategy book (https://lnkd.in/gZJ2YRy7) and got to the part of API platforms… needless to say this area is near and dear to my heart and I have a lot to say 😉 Quick thought: I think about these “API platforms” referred to in the book (p80)... That the full-stack vendor API platform products are not adequate for the very internal developer platforms that orgs wish to build to improve developer productivity. In fact the vendors used to illustrate the API platforms are exactly outdated. Now you might go through the product brochure of these vendors and see a lot of shiny things in there, and buzzwords used to dilute the value of the real thing, but these bolt on, cloud/modernization washing is not akin to the real thing. And to use a car example for Gregor… taking an 1985 Buick Century and washing, it, shining it, and adding a cassette adapter to play music from our phones does not make it a modern car. I’ll be speaking more about this topic in Boston on Tuesday: Reducing developer overload: give auth, policy, and resilience to the platform https://lnkd.in/gAmT_swJ I’ve written more about it here: https://lnkd.in/g8SSeyrs A burst of many thoughts generated by the book Gregor, thanks for writing it. #Istio #APIPlatform #APIManagement #PlatformEngineering

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Another day, another new, faster #LLM. Meet Claude 3.5 Sonnet from #Anthropic. "Claude 3.5 Sonnet operates at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus. This performance boost, combined with cost-effective pricing, makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet ideal for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multi-step workflows." https://lnkd.in/ecXUMhKE #AI #genAI #CX #AIorchestration

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Well worth a read if naming matters to you.

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At Beacon we are having conversations every day about how #government agencies develop and deploy #software. And today's earnings release from Palantir Technologies was a great opportunity to check in with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg about the progress of #artificialintelligence deployments in government. We talked about #Transportation in particular: it is a bi-partisan issue, and transportation agencies have needs around traffic congestion, safety, and infrastructure resilience. In a world of #connectedvehicles and perhaps eventually autonomous vehicles (we still far from that), the #technology needs are many!

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Read about structuring engineering organizations at #Addepar on our relaunched blog!

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This week's blog focuses on an infrastructure issue (K8s) and how Matt troubleshoots it in less than 4mins: https://lnkd.in/gkrXkcN8 My favorite part is the customer quote: "The remediation recommendations are exactly what we would have done. Getting the K8s commands that I can just copy and paste is a great feature". Webb.ai #sre #devops #sitereliabilityengineering #sitereliabilityengineer #sitereliability #softwareengineering #cloudarchitect Datadog Kubernetes

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Excited to be featured in a recent Forbes Technology Council article, "Top Challenges In Building Cross-Platform Apps (And How To Solve Them)." In the article, I discuss the importance of standardizing data formats to tackle the challenges posed by disparate data structures across ERP and planning systems. Leveraging purpose-built middleware, APIs, and effective data-cleansing techniques can significantly streamline integration and enhance the deployment of advanced analytics. Check out the full article to explore insights from various industry leaders on overcoming cross-platform development challenges! #ForbesTechCouncil LeanDNA #DataStandardization #CrossPlatformApps #TechInnovation

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Granicus uses foundational models on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock to summarize meetings for digital transformation in #civicengagement. With our application-agnostic platform, we break down call transcripts into meaningful agenda topics and parallelize requests to Bedrock with AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda. This lets us manage handle transcripts of up to 500 pages, going beyond context windows with GenAI. C: Nicole Morris Negri, Steven Rich, Elisa Vannini, Delfino Parra, Enoch Daniel, Ray Gacasan, Jim Kim, Randy Jones, Julian Letter, AWS Partners, Paul Mrochinski, Allan Rubin, Amir Capriles, Lena Pekaj, Trevor Corning, PMP

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Incoming: Next Christchurch Product Management Meetup! Thursday, August 1, 2024 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM NZST Join us for a summary of the Why, What, Who and How from Marty Cagan's book and workshop "Transformed", and our conversations afterwards. It is designed to give you an overview of the context, some key principles and insights, and some next steps and considerations as you think about how you can structure your teams and processes to build better, more successful products, and a culture of innovation in your organization. https://lnkd.in/g5F5ypdx

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Great blog by my colleague Jon Jarboe on how Wind River Studio Pipelines improves collaboration and automation to increase development efficiency across your extended team - regardless of operating environment or vendor: https://ow.ly/X8TV30sCF2h #DevOps #DevSecOps #WeAreWindRiver

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Discover a transformative conversation on systems thinking with our special guest, Michele Sollecito, in this episode of the Mob Mentality Show. In "Michele Sollecito on Systems Thinking: Seeing the Interactions Beyond the Parts," Michele shares valuable insights and practical examples that can revolutionize your approach to system optimization and organizational management. https://lnkd.in/gFE4DuAD https://lnkd.in/gyHPmNYB ### Topics Covered: **Systems Thinking:** - **Seeing Systems Everywhere** - **Focus on Interactions** - **Person Issue vs. System Issue** - **Animated Causal Loop Diagrams** - **Sub-System Optimization** - **System Fracturing from the Top** - **Trunk Based Development (TBD)** - **Benchmarking and "Copy-Paste" Pitfalls** - **Defensive Posture vs. Experimentation** - **Changing Core Beliefs** - **Leadership and Fake Experiments** - **Data vs. Emotion** - **Comfortable Inefficiency** - **Team Dynamics and Failure** - **Culture of Continuous Improvement** - **Managing Resistance to Improvement* **Software Architecture:** - **Specialists vs. Generalists** - **Technology Obsession** - **Distributed Systems** - **Coordination Strategies** - **Paired Product Ownership** - **Autonomy vs. Consistency?** **Ensemble Programming:** - **Resistance** - **Paradigm Shift to Fun** - **Early Adopters** - **Collaboration and Virtue** - **Sustainable Development** - **Avoid Echo Chambers** - **System Level Relationships with Mob** Don't miss this enlightening conversation that can transform your approach to systems thinking, software architecture, and ensemble programming. Listen and engage with Michele Sollecito's insights on the Mob Mentality Show! Huge thanks to Peti Koch who recommended Michele Sollecito come on the show 👍 #SystemThinking #Leadership #TrunkBasedDevelopment #TBD #Benchmarking #Experimentation #Vulnerability #Data #Blame #Fear #ContinuousImprovement #Habit #Silos #DistributedSystems #SelfOrganization  #ProductOwnership #CollectiveOwnership #Autonomy #Deadlines #MobProgramming #PairProgramming #EnsembleProgramming #Teaming #Teamwork #Collaboration #Fun #Burnout #SustainablePace #EchoChamber #Learning #Growth

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If you've played around with RAG, and are looking to optimize existing implementations, Lilach Adler and Cohere will discuss practical steps to help you build RAG-based systems that run in production and at scale

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ESM3 from EvolutionaryScale is available now on Amazon SageMaker -- generate complex multi-domain proteins from scratch, create protein design workflows, and incorporate functional understanding #AWSome #AmazonSageMaker #ESM3

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Thanks Joanne Chen and Jaya G. from Foundation Capital for the nod! Great to be in the cohort of top notch AI companies. Observability data is untapped goldmine of information, but when the time comes (in the middle of incident), it still requires "expert" skills to find the needle in the haystack. We at Deductive AI are democratizing the expertise to everyone in the organization.

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Nice to see Cloudsmith listed as the #1 fastest-growing tool in this year's CircleCI State of Software Delivery report - https://lnkd.in/ejnSYr62. If you're building software with CircleCI, you should consider pointing CircleCI at Cloudsmith as your artifact repository (for lots of reasons). Try it out at https://try.cloudsmith.com.

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Check out part 4 of our Real-Time Visibility series! 🔍 Learn how to pinpoint performance issues in your code and optimize for efficiency. #RealTimeVisibility #PerformanceOptimization

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