Where do you see yourself in 5 years and how do you plan on achieving these goals?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

"In 5 years, I see myself in a senior leadership role, either as a senior
engineering manager or director, leading high-performing teams that tackle
large-scale, high-impact technical challenges, particularly in areas like
distributed systems, decision science, or machine learning infrastructure. I
want to contribute to a forward-thinking company like Haus, where I can
influence the technical roadmap and mentor engineers to achieve their full
potential while driving meaningful business outcomes.
In my previous roles at Uber and Amazon, I had the opportunity to lead teams and
work on large-scale distributed systems, which has greatly shaped my leadership
and technical expertise. For instance, at Uber, I played a key role in improving
search coverage to 92% by introducing semantic search and upgrading Lucene. This
involved coordinating with cross-functional teams, procuring resources like
GPUs, and making key decisions that helped reduce index-building time from 40
hours to 8 hours, ultimately improving search performance. Leading this effort
required balancing long-term scalability with immediate business needs—skills
that I plan to expand upon in future roles.
At Amazon, I was involved in managing large-scale distributed systems and gained
hands-on experience in scaling infrastructure to support millions of users. The
challenges of maintaining system reliability and optimizing performance in a
high-velocity environment honed my ability to deliver high-quality products on
time, even under pressure. These experiences have reinforced my goal of
continuing to lead teams in solving complex technical problems at scale.
To achieve my 5-year goals, I plan to:
 1. Continuously improve as a leader: I’ll focus on staying ahead of technology
    trends, particularly in AI and distributed systems, and further develop my
    leadership abilities by learning from peers and mentors.
 2. Drive impact and innovation: By applying lessons from my time at Uber and
    Amazon, I’ll continue delivering scalable, efficient solutions that have a
    direct impact on business success. For example, at Uber, implementing
    semantic search helped achieve a measurable improvement in user experience
    and bottom-line results.
 3. Foster a high-performing culture: I aim to create a collaborative,
    accountable environment where engineers are empowered to innovate and grow,
    much like how I nurtured talent and problem-solving within the teams I led
    at Uber and Amazon

Anonymous · Answer

* In next 5 years I want to grow into an expert for leveraging kubernetes to
   run AI workload, as I believe      kubernetes can be the extensible platform
   to

Be able to handle the very dynamic requirements for running AI workload in
Cloud. This role very well aligns and gives the right set of opportunities
to be me in what I believe, will help the future of running AI workload in
cloud.
 * I had multiple great mentor's      in past who had significant impact in my
   career growth, I want to continue      growing as great mentor and leader to
   able to create similar impact in      other developers and teams and enable
   them achieve more.
 * How ?
   * Foster growth mindset in the       team environment as well in myself.
     * Open communication and        feedback sharing and helping each other to
       succeeded.
   * Involved in customer asks       and pain points and how can they succeed
     and achieve more using the       technology.
   * Build new skills and network       to share ideas and learn from others.
   * Take on new responsibilities       and enable the team to grow and have
     greater impact.

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