In today’s episode, my guest is Dennis Ramdass. He is a Staff Engineer 2 Stripe at VMWare where he focuses on building ML-based products. Dennis is an MIT Alum and is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. He shares some great lessons for having a great tech career and how to be at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning.

✅ Connect with Dennis Ramdass on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-ramdass-98425718/

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📒 Chapters

00:00 Opening
03:00 What is VMWare and compute virtualization
07:13 Working across different sizes of organization, startups vs enterprise
10:17 What is the future impact of tech and ML for the Caribbean region
14:17 You should be contributing to opensource, great for tech career
17:04 Early high school journey to MIT
26:12 Experience at MIT and fast track master degrees
34:45 Early career at NetApp - Enterprise Data Storage
38:40 Moving to a startup and getting acquired
41:20 Evaluating when to shift companies
44:32 The importance of customer-facing skills in your Tech Career
50:14 Internal networking at large companies
54:30 Leading teams in software engineering and adding value
57:20 Day to day job, coding, machine learning
01:00:45 Ways to stay sharp in your Tech Career
01:02:28 General advice for high-schooler, college student and professional
01:13:14 Book recommendations