What Happened in 2024
2024 has been a year of remarkable transformation. Just two and a half years out of college, I went from feeling uncertain about my path in software engineering to finding my stride in machine learning engineering. It's been a journey of pushing boundaries – improving my health, contributing to open source, and diving deeper into research.
The year has felt like a constant acceleration, especially in the last six months, where everything from technical growth to personal development seemed to shift into high gear.
Four achievements stand out from this transformative year:
- Helped grow instructor from ~300k downloads to 1.1M downloads this year as core contributor
- Quit my job as a swe and started working full time with llms
- Got into better shape, lost about 6kg total and total cholesterol dropped by 32% w lifestyle changes
- Delivered a total of 4 technical talks this year for the first time