The life and ramblings of Canada's most innovative Technology leader
The best decisions I’ve made in my career I have always had a bit of an edge, something super competitive in me that drove me to be better than my self of yesterday. It’s an unrelenting hunger that I use
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Should your startup take VC money? Speaking with fellow investors, we often chat about whether we are always doing the right thing by investing in the businesses we do. It’s not that we do or don’t believe in the specific
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Gaining the experience to build data, ETL, ML and AI pipelines in the real world For years and years, I have been progressively building my way up to this. From the times early in my career where I was simply
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Growing a tech startup 30 employees in less than one year This is something that I have now done many times over in my personal career, being a very early engineer at many places that required my expertise, not only
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Full on alignment required The way high-performing organizations operate today is radically different from how they operated 10 years ago. Yet many other organizations continue to operate according to industrial-age models that are 100 years old or more, weighed down
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This is the final of the series where I will examine the problem that #Canada has with its lack of #funding for #technology startups. If you happen to have missed part I of Canada, and more specifically Toronto, belongs at the
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Canada does indeed belong at the top. This has been a long time coming and the fact that we are now at a a time in history where Canada’s government, policy and talent all culminate to make it a way better place to live than in the USA (in general); Canada, and specifically Toronto, belongs at the top.
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Nvidia GPUs, Kubernetes and Tensorflow – the (not so) final AI Frontiers So you want to intelligently use your infrastructure, don’t you? And you want to use it cross-platform? How about cross data-center? We all do. I have been around
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Canada should lead in the battle of intelligence platforms I have been the VP #Engineering and #CTO at Ficstar, a leading data extraction platform for nearly the past two years and in those times I have seen the need for
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