The asklokesh Ecosystem: How All My Projects Connect
A walkthrough of every public project I maintain and how they form a connected system for AI-powered software engineering
- career
- personal
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Writing on career.
32 essays connected to career.
Writing indexStarting MIT's AI and ML Professional Education Program
Why I enrolled in MIT's professional education program for AI and machine learning, and what I expect to gain as a practitioner who builds AI systems daily
- ai
- career
From Zero to Global Adoption: Open Source Virality
How an enterprise MCP server collection went from a personal project to globally adopted open source infrastructure
- open-source
- career
My First Steps in AI Research
Documenting my journey from infrastructure engineer to hands-on AI researcher and builder
- ai
- career
Pivoting My Career Toward AI
After years in cloud infrastructure, I am making a deliberate shift toward AI and large language models
- ai
- career
CKAD Certification: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Passed the CKAD exam and earned another Kubernetes certification, reinforcing my conviction that container orchestration is fundamental infrastructure
- kubernetes
- career
Mastering Cloud Engineering: Published
My first book is published, distilling years of hands-on cloud architecture experience into a comprehensive guide
- books
- cloud
- career
Writing a Book About Cloud Engineering
I am writing Mastering Cloud Engineering, and the process is teaching me as much as the content itself
- books
- career
2020: The Year Everything Changed
A year that began with a mysterious virus in Wuhan ended with the world permanently altered, and the acceleration of trends that will define the next decade
- personal
- career
The 2010s: A Decade of Cloud, Mobile, and Early AI
Reflecting on a decade that transformed technology and my career, from Linux administration to cloud infrastructure leadership
- personal
- career
Leading Cloud Infrastructure: Lessons After Four Years
A retrospective on four years of leading cloud infrastructure teams, from technical decisions to organizational dynamics
- leadership
- career
Mentoring Engineers and Leading a Team of Ten
What I have learned about mentoring, team building, and the transition from individual contributor to engineering leader
- leadership
- career
CKA: Becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator
I passed the CKA exam and here is what it actually takes to master Kubernetes administration
- kubernetes
- career
Contributing to CNCF: My Kubernetes Open Source Journey
How getting involved with CNCF and the Kubernetes community changed the way I think about infrastructure
- kubernetes
- career
Day One at a Major Entertainment Company
Starting a new chapter as a cloud architect at one of the world's largest entertainment enterprises
- career
- personal
Starting at a Telecom Giant: Enterprise Cloud Architect
My first corporate role in America, designing cloud architecture at enterprise scale
- career
- cloud
Leaving Texas A&M, Entering Industry
After years of research and coursework, I am closing the grad school chapter and stepping into the industry
- career
- personal
Grad School, Research, and Cloud Computing
Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry
- cloud
- career
Cloud Computing Research with Dr. Young Lee
Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems
- cloud
- career
First Week at Texas A&M Research Lab
Starting my MS in Computer Science, navigating a new country, and stepping into research assistant life
- career
- personal
Accepted to Texas A&M: America, Here I Come
I got my acceptance letter for MS in Computer Science and my life is about to change completely
- career
- personal
Starting as Lead Systems Engineer
New role managing a Linux NOC team and learning what leadership actually means
- career
Running a Linux NOC: Chasing 99.9% Uptime
What it actually takes to keep Linux infrastructure running at 99.9% uptime, from the perspective of someone who lives in the NOC
- cloud
- career
VMware Certifications and the Enterprise Virtualization Landscape
Studying for VMware certifications and discovering how deeply virtualization has reshaped enterprise infrastructure
- cloud
- career
The Linux Admin Life: RHEL in Production
What day-to-day Linux system administration actually looks like when real systems depend on you
- cloud
- career
Why I Want a Masters in Computer Science
An engineering student thinks through the case for grad school in America
- career
- personal
The Decade Ends: From Dial-Up to Cloud
Looking back at 2000-2009, a decade that took us from dial-up connections to cloud computing, and changed everything
- personal
- career
Got My RHCE: What It Means
After months of studying, late nights, and lab rebuilds, I passed the RHCE exam and learned more than just Linux
- career
Studying for RHCE
Deep in Red Hat territory, preparing for the RHCE certification and discovering what system administration really means
- career
- cloud
My First Linux Server
I got my hands on a real Linux server and learned more in two weeks than I did in a semester of classes
- cloud
- career
iPhone 3G and the Mobile Web
Apple just announced the iPhone 3G and I think the way we use the internet is about to fundamentally shift
- personal
- career
Why I'm Starting This Blog
A wide-eyed engineering student discovers the internet and decides to document the journey
- personal
- career