Ned Ellis

About Me

I live in San Francisco and currently work on infra at Anthropic.

Prior to that, I was working at Databricks as a Senior Software Engineer on the Serverless team.

Prior to that, I was at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign getting my undergrad degree in Computer Engineering.

Projects

• Bufo Emoji Semantic Search

Reading List

• The Heilmeier Catechism
• The Prize
• Principle of Least Power
• How tech loses out over at companies, countries and continents
• Choose Boring Technology
• The soul of Erlang and Elixir
• The all Potato Diet
• Sounds Easy
• The value of in-house expertise
• Mass Effect 1 Retrospective
• Serenity OS
• Master of the Senate
• The Power Broker
• Cost Disease
• The Grug Brained Developer
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Expert Beginner
• The Bitter Lesson

Music Corner

• Fazer
• Love Trip - Takako Mamiya
• Beautiful Rain - Seiichi Yamamoto

Laws

• Hyrum’s Law
• Goodhart’s law

Disclaimers

Some concepts are hard to put into words, especially to strangers. This may change if I improve at writing, or you get to know me personally.

If the picture at the top looks weird to you, you’re probably seeing a moire pattern!

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