Maria Daniel Deepak

Tag: AI

  • My Next Career Progression And Why?

    Most of my career, over the last 15 years, has been spent on software coding & implementation.

    To move up the career ladder, there are four areas that I need to consider:

    1. Coding & implementation
    2. Architecture & technical decisions
    3. Collaboration & leadership
    4. Strategy, planning & analysis

    My next career progression should not only involve coding & implementation but also technical decisions, leadership and strategy planning. This puts me in the Senior Product Engineering roles and I can then naturally progress in leadership directions — Engineering lead, Engineering manager & then to Head of Engineering roles.

    To make the next move more relevant and to stay ahead I must evolve in to AI frontier roles that involve the above areas. The AI frontier demands the knowledge of RAG and enterprise knowledge systems, Agentic AI and orchestration, AI evaluation and production engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE).

    The knowledge of the above systems would then allow me to look for Senior AI Product Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, AI Applications Engineer, and Forward Deployed Engineer roles in addition to the Senior Product Engineer roles.

  • Micro1: What & Why Should You Care?

    Micro1: What & Why Should You Care?

    In recent times, the term Micro1 is gaining traction in Reddit. I am writing this post to understand what Micro1 is and why should one care?

    Micro1, founded by Ali Ansari, is an AI powered talent and recruiting platform. Micro1 also helps AI companies to train their models by providing training data.

    Zara is the core product at Micro1 that vets candidates and conducts early-stage interviews at scale.

    At Micro1, Talent marketplace exists and connects vetted engineers, domain experts and professionals with companies.

    Why Should You Care?

    Micro1 has raised $35 million in Series A funding and the company’s gross annual run rate is $500 million.

    There are three major reasons why professionals are paying attention to Micro1.

    1. Micro1 provides the human expertise to evaluate complex model outputs at scale.
    2. The business model scales because Micro1 recruits specialists as contractors rather than permanent employees.
    3. Micro1 is constantly expanding services beyond recruitment.

    All these are strong indicators for skilled professionals to be part of Micro1.