Sandeep Chouksey

Excited to be part of NY Tech Week! 🎉 Come see me and let's talk tech. Whether you have questions, want to start or scale your business, or are interested in a quick intro to AI as a productivity tool, drop by and say hello! Let's innovate together. 🚀 #NYTechWeek #Innovation #AI #BusinessGrowth

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How do you keep engineering teams aligned with business goals while embracing innovation? Ada, the world’s leading customer service automation company, found the answer with Jellyfish. When pivoting to a generative-first strategy, Ada faced a key challenge: balancing innovation with supporting existing customers. They needed clarity on how their teams worked and invested their time. With Jellyfish, they achieved: 🚀 A 14% improvement in cycle times 🎯 Ranked in the top 97th percentile for “days with commits” 📈 Over 10% growth in technical investments “Jellyfish has become our go-to dashboard to understand how we’re operating as a team at a glance,” says William Mora, Head of Engineering at Ada. Now, Ada’s team is striking the perfect balance—focusing on reliability, experimentation, and investments that drive their business forward. Read the full story. Link in comments👇

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Earlier this week Hazel Weakly wrote about what she is calling "observability 3.0". I argue our core challenge is not surfacing insights to eng-adjacent teams, but the reverse -- helping engineering teams understand and explain their work in the language of the business. https://lnkd.in/g6KX4_6g

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What Really Happens To A Founder After They Fail -- I'll walk you through each stage and how to get past all of them in my new article for Inc. Magazine https://lnkd.in/e-ngs9PT #startup #entrepreneur #failure #work 

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It turns out, the Long Island Sound IS water. For these and other insights, check out this post about our seed funding round. 😬 #startups #fundraising #newyork

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This is a concept I talked about in my latest conference talk. tl;dr When everyone focuses on solving the user's problem, everyone helps each other and everyone wins.

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Mark Taylor Amy McGeady It was a pleasure to be on the webinar with you, "Dispelling Myths Around Gen AI Use in Proposal Development" https://lnkd.in/egyYWnva Mark, I liked your remark: "Even if AI could create proposals autonomously, we would have to have the human role since that creates human ownership." "Even if" likely implies AGI—OpenAI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks - https://lnkd.in/eCXp8MfN For instance, the Tech Writer job function as defined by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook https://lnkd.in/eSScQG9v Could you hire the latest model from OpenAI o1 model to be a proposal writer on your team? The answer is obviously no. Interestingly, last week, a bunch of scientists designed a new "AGI benchmark" to measure real-world progress in autonomous ML engineering agents. They found that o1 achieved at least the level of a Kaggle bronze medal on 16.9% of the 75 tests. https://lnkd.in/eZmwj2B5 pWin.ai

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Sup fam!! Relationships are everything!! They're the core of your engineering platform. Your team's design docs, software patterns, pull requests, and GitOps workflows all need to pass through a complex network of relationships before becoming meaningful to stakeholders. Before that, they're just bytes sitting on Jeff Bezos' disks. How are your relationships doing? Which relationships need some light touching up? Which ones need some serious investment? How about that one person on that one team? How about on _your_ team? Are you tracking these gaps with the same effectiveness you're tracking tech debt? It takes an intentional effort to build meaningful connections and to show peers you're a stakeholder in _their_ success. It's worth your time -- not to mention you'll feel great!! Want to optimize your engineering platform? Start by investing in your relationships!

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Legit quotable and actionable advice: * Power of Threes - 3 mentors, 3 peers, 3 mentees. * If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together

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I had a super hard time finding the right Lead Engineer/technical counterpart for me at my SaaS company. After going down the "hire a technical Co-Founder path" in the very early days of Because and having it not work out (having a co-founder is like a marriage and man it's not easy!)... After hiring older more seasoned technical leaders and having that also not work out... I finally hired the gem that is our Lead Engineer today, Marlin Jayasekera 🙏 He's in his late twenties and he's a better fit for our team than all the older more "seasoned" talent I had hired historically. That doesn't mean our entire team is Gen Z btw (we aren't ageist!) but I learned so many good lessons here I thought were worth sharing for anyone building out their team. In my opinion... 👨‍💻 Your first technical leader (or any early hire for that matter) should be someone who GSD (gets shit done 💩) rather than someone who dreams all day or just wants to "direct resources." 👵 Age doesn't define you. As a 27 year old CEO, I of course embody this value but it's been so cool to see other young leadership at Because quickly earning the respect and love from older peers around them. 🤝It's so important to make sure your early leadership team sees eye to eye with you. The relationship Marlin and I have built is healthy, respectful, and supportive. We know when to challenge each other but we almost always see eye to eye. That's way easier said than done! ✨ I completely trust him to make decisions. We come together once a week for sprint planning (1 week sprints) to set goals together and then I let him and the team go off and execute on those goals. The trust between us is key to let him and the engineering team be successful on their own. What wrong hires have you made that ultimately led you to the right one? ❤️👇

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🌟 From Seeds to Stars: Celebrating a Year of Boston AI Forum 🌟 As we close an incredible year, I’m thrilled to share something truly special—a musical tribute to the vibrant community and groundbreaking innovation we’ve cultivated at Boston AI Forum. 🎶 With the help of AI, I wrote lyrics and composed a music piece to capture the spirit of our journey together. Siying Ma, co-founder of TopContenders Network, transformed our year into a visual masterpiece, compiling photos that celebrate our achievements and the people who made it all possible. 📽️ Watch the video piece here: https://lnkd.in/emM-Anyd 💡 From workshops to engaging talks and diverse events like the Monthly AI Leadership Meeting, Talk AI Get Exercise hiking series, LaunchAThons, and Demo Days, we didn’t just explore the possibilities of AI—we lived them. Here’s a snippet from the lyrics: 🎵 “Bounce to the beat, step in the light, Innovation rising, we take flight. From seeds to stars, we’re here to stay, Boston AI, we lead the way.” 🎵 These words symbolize more than a song—they reflect our collective achievements and the unyielding passion that drives us forward. 🙏 Gratitude Corner A heartfelt thank you to our generous sponsors, including Ahrar Naqvi, Ebryx LLC, Claude Arnell Milhouse from DevAccelerator, and Microsoft. Your support has been instrumental in ensuring the success of our meetups. 🙌 Special thanks to our amazing speakers and the incredible members of the Boston AI community—your creativity and dedication inspire us all. 🚀 What’s Next? 2025 promises to be even brighter as we launch the TopContenders Program, a bold initiative to showcase high-impact AI projects. 💡 Why Join TopContenders? Showcase your groundbreaking projects to investors, mentors, and industry leaders. Be part of a dynamic ecosystem fostering innovation across industries. Learn and grow through workshops, expert guidance, and storytelling training. 👉 How to Get Involved: Become a TopContenders Team Member: Help scout projects, build partnerships, or support fundraising. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/e4UtX-xK Submit Your Project for Showcase: Have a high-impact project? Share it with us for consideration. Submit here: https://lnkd.in/eNanSZEm Let’s continue turning ideas into action and dreams into reality. Together, we’re building a future where innovation knows no bounds. ✨ #BostonForum #AIInnovation #SeedsToStars #TopContenders #CommunityCelebration #YearInReview

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Quite useful piece for those building video platforms/products and for those willing to learn about load and performance tests

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Creating a Detailed Project Plan and Timeline * Organized planning for efficient execution * Clear timelines for project milestones * Effective coordination among team members Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e3WK9X_N Read our playbook, "Software Development Playbook" written by Mark Turkel, PBSD Founder and CEO. This book was written for business owners and decision makers in a non-technical form, and will help you to thrive in the software development process. Available on Amazon. #PalmBeachSoftware #MarkTurkel #ProjectPlanning #Timeline

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At Speakeasy we love working with devex leaders like Michael Heap to continuously raise the bar for what is "best in class" 🔥 We've been super lucky to work with him on what makes a great developer experience for iac and terraform. Come hear him and Thomas Rooney talk through how you can leverage OpenAPI and your API supply chain to build a provider and unlock the Terraform ecosystem. Link to the livestream in the comments 👇 #terraform #codegeneration #openapi

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Every hour spent on manual testing is an hour your team isn’t innovating. Many developers think slow, methodical manual testing is necessary for quality. But here’s the truth: AI-powered testing speeds things up without compromising on reliability. With Sentra, your team can: • Automate routine tests. • Run continuous checks in CI/CD. • Eliminate testing bottlenecks. The result? Faster releases, fewer bugs, and more time for what really matters: building amazing software. How is your team accelerating testing? Let’s chat in the comments. #ai #softwareengineering #coding #programming #softwaretesting

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My quick tip if you're interviewing for a CTO role: If you'll be the ONLY engineer on the team... It's not a CTO position. 😜

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Polls can be a cheat code for earned media, and a great way to build authority. But there are levels to this. Here's how one of the best I've seen - Capital One - does it. (And what I'd do differently to increase earned coverage). Led by Shena Ashley, PhD, Capital One's Insights Center is a masterclass in leveraging polls to create unique insights that would do incredibly well via earned syndication. Here’s what they do great: ✅ Content that sticks: Crucial issues > fleeting trends. Focusing on topics like financial stability, mobility, and entrepreneurship, it's easier to rationalize investment on topics with a longer shelf life. Their insights + stories can drive coverage for months to come. ✅ Visual storytelling: Data doesn’t have to be dry, and Capital One presents original insights through clear and eye-pleasing visuals that are easy to understand. Publishers like charts, they love colorful charts, and they LOVE colorful charts that are easy to understand. Check, check, check. ✅ Strong methodologies and extensive polling numbers: Capital One frequently involves 7k+ participants in their studies - they are not half a**ing it. Well explained methodologies are table stakes to get your polls covered, and Capital One does a great job outlining their data collection process, sample size, and research methodologies.   ✅ Easy to steal: Each report has multiple easy to take stories/soundbites, and are also written as full pieces of content, which can be taken as whole. Finally --- if I could change one thing... Add a byline. Brand publishing NEEDS a byline - no news outlet wants to cover a story that can't be credited back to a human. All in all, polls can be incredibly valuable for driving earned syndication - check out Capital One's Insights Center in comments for killer examples.

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