2021 Year in Review

Eugene Yan · 4 years ago

A software engineer at Amazon published a 2021 personal review covering work achievements, goals met and missed, and a new project. The author wrote 34 posts (missing a 48-post target), gave 10 talks, invested in two startups including one in ML production, and built ApplyingML.com, a site collecting tribal knowledge on machine learning systems through interviews with practitioners. The site traffic grew 30% year-over-year to 337,000 page views, email subscribers increased from 800 to 2,500, and the author's social media following expanded significantly across platforms.