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The past 8 months have been pretty busy and pretty awesome! I wanted to speak a bit to my experiences and what lays ahead For context, I had spent the first four months of the year at CentML — an AI inference startup based out of Toronto, and the next four months at Figma I'm also releasing this on my 20th birthday. I've added a reflection at the end. CentML I was pretty excited to work here. I had upper year friends who had done co-ops at CentML before, and they all said it was the position they learnt the most in. I can echo these thoughts now! I had never worked with huge mono-repos, navigating hundreds of pods through k8s, and skimming through Pulumi stack diffs. I was definitely thrown into the deep-end by my manager + mentor, but it was all in the good spirit of promoting agency. I was mainly responsible for a lot of infrastructure + backend work. A big thing I did was spearhead a bunch of new observability work for our model serving. CentML cares a lot about meeting a certain to

Pushing 20 > Nima Pourjafar [ projects ] [ blog ] The past 8 months have been pretty busy and pretty awesome! I wanted to speak a bit to my experiences and what lays ahead For context, I had spent the first four months of the year at CentML — an AI inference startup based out of Toronto, and the next four months at Figma I'm also releasing this on my 20th birthday. I've added a reflection at the end. CentML I was pretty excited to work here. I had upper year friends who had done co-ops at CentML before, and they all said it was the position they learnt the most in. I can echo these thoughts no

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