Alex Baranau

I write about efficient distributed systems, effective engineering teams, making IoT data useful. Managed data platforms & analytics @Tesla. My views are mine.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

After 8 years of life-defining experience founding, leading, and managing IoT Data Platforms & Analytics @Tesla, I am moving on. I am super proud of what our lean team has achieved, and I am confident that even more impressive results lie ahead for them, given the highest caliber of engineers and leadership.

It was a true privilege to work alongside incredibly talented, hardworking engineers and leaders who make a huge positive difference on a planetary scale. I am forever grateful for your trust, support, and deeply indebted for all I've learned from you.

And now.. onto the next big thing.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

Having witnessed his incredible talent at Tesla, I'm stoked to see @thorgutierrez take on climate change head-on! With his ability to push the limits to rapidly innovate & building stellar teams, I'm thrilled about the future ahead of @SironaTechCDR #ClimateTech #DirectAirCapture

[Sirona Technologies @SironaTechCDR]

🚀 Former Tesla engineer leads Belgium's first DAC technology climate tech startup Sirona Technologies

We're very excited to announce we've raised $1M in pre-seed funding to build direct air capture machines!

https://t.co/RjekJXsm8X

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

Just a reminder: if you had great collaboration with/help from other team's engineer, do share the positive feedback with their manager.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

Anyone else noticed how fresh grads/younger software engineers say “spawn” nodes/services instead of “spin up” these days?

[Colin Breck @breckcs]

Our Transition to Renewable Energy: Motivating the Most Challenging Problems in Distributed Computing and IoT
https://t.co/XWvySKCIHL

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

Constructive party poopers are key to the success of a data infra team.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@GergelyOrosz 100%. Our team aims that even for (especially for?) internal facing but very core data services.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@GergelyOrosz It’s always great to discuss a major migration execution with candidates for senior engineering roles. In fact, more useful than talking about the new system’s features or implementation.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@GergelyOrosz Sr staff: now that it works and I understand the problem better, let me try throw away most pieces of my solution that’s just needless complexity

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@gwenshap @richardstartin California Ave in Palo Alto: Backyard Brew

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@d_stepanovic Wait. I could just sit around and wait for the merge doing nothing?

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

Late in the day releases and incidents handling really suck without the in-person comradery you'd get in the office.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@johnnyrodgersis Can confirm the UX is amazing.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@th30z @gwenshap Obligatory reference to vint in Lucene (where it all started?): https://t.co/Q5xoIwIKWQ

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@brent_bellamy Did they just remove all the trees on quite a few streets between 1959 and 1972? Or, I hope, the 1972 photo is done in winter when trees are not visible well without their leaves?

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@HikeyCodey @rakyll The original tweet may have a super discouraging effect on many who in their mid-20s are still figuring it out. But it shouldn’t.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@gwenshap What is the best place/page/doc to learn about the comprehensive detailed list of supported requests?

Thank you!

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

@rakyll My early 20s were in a non-developed country at a company that sell your hours to support outsourced projects. Thinking about the head start advantage of western students who intern at big tech was painful.
But it has not destroyed my career. Never thought it would. Keep growing.

[Alex Baranau @abaranau]

“In the day and age of always-on, you-build-it-you-run-it software services, where teams are responsible around the clock, often without additional compensation, forcing a team to deliver low quality is unethical.” by ⁦@breckcs⁩ https://t.co/oBSLcTfUS0