Jason Voorhees
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Anthropic recently announced their new CTO. Rahul Patil. I was reading the news and thought yea whatever just another over achieving Indian but I was wrong.
www.anthropic.com
He has very humble beginnings.
He first started engineering in a Good but by no means Great University. PESIT a well respected uni in Bengaluru. India..not some IIT or whatever ,he followed it up with a Masters in ASU again by no means a prestigious uni and then an MBA very standard path for an average ITcel but one thing you'll see him do different is his laser focus on one thing and one thing only
That is cloud infrastructure. Spent more than 10 years in Microsoft building parallel compute and Azure infrastructure. Also a brief stint for a year at amazon in the amazon kinesis which is deep cloud infrastructure work
Same thing in Oracle too. Senior VP in cloud infrastructure.
Then job switched again to the payments giant stripe and would you believe it head of infrastructure and later a CTO.
In his entire illustrious career spanning over 20+ years in the IT industry he has never had any role that gave him any expertise in AI but what he does have is deep industry expert level knowledge on infrastructure and at a time Anthropic and Claude AI wants to scale globally. This is exactly the man they need. An Infrastructure Ninja
This is why expertise in skills matters so much in the field. I always say this be sharp edged and unmoggable in one thing instead of being well rounded and blunt and meh everywhere. Try being an expert in what you can do best instead of chasing the next trend. Rahul knew what he wanted to do, he knew what he was good at and chased after it like a mad man for 2 decades to became the top dog.
And I know some nigga will scream nepotism, cheap labour etc. Just as an estimate this guy is easily getting paid over $30-40 million if not more. Making a fucking bank for his job.
Rahul Patil joins Anthropic as Chief Technology Officer
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
He has very humble beginnings.
He first started engineering in a Good but by no means Great University. PESIT a well respected uni in Bengaluru. India..not some IIT or whatever ,he followed it up with a Masters in ASU again by no means a prestigious uni and then an MBA very standard path for an average ITcel but one thing you'll see him do different is his laser focus on one thing and one thing only
That is cloud infrastructure. Spent more than 10 years in Microsoft building parallel compute and Azure infrastructure. Also a brief stint for a year at amazon in the amazon kinesis which is deep cloud infrastructure work
Same thing in Oracle too. Senior VP in cloud infrastructure.
Then job switched again to the payments giant stripe and would you believe it head of infrastructure and later a CTO.
In his entire illustrious career spanning over 20+ years in the IT industry he has never had any role that gave him any expertise in AI but what he does have is deep industry expert level knowledge on infrastructure and at a time Anthropic and Claude AI wants to scale globally. This is exactly the man they need. An Infrastructure Ninja
This is why expertise in skills matters so much in the field. I always say this be sharp edged and unmoggable in one thing instead of being well rounded and blunt and meh everywhere. Try being an expert in what you can do best instead of chasing the next trend. Rahul knew what he wanted to do, he knew what he was good at and chased after it like a mad man for 2 decades to became the top dog.
And I know some nigga will scream nepotism, cheap labour etc. Just as an estimate this guy is easily getting paid over $30-40 million if not more. Making a fucking bank for his job.
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