Who is Amit Tomar
I am an engineer; building, scaling, growing and shipping products from Bay Area.
Find me on linkedin here https://linkedin.com/in/amit-tomar
Past: NIT and MIT alum; ex-C3.ai, Imply.io (Responsible for leading growth & marketing at series-C, a16z backed startup - powering sub-second latency analytics for some of the top tech companies of the world through no-sql Apache Druid db)
Current: Building API products at Hasura.io
Checkout my post at Hasura community call here:
Checkout my publications at Imply.io here:
Imply’s real-time analytics maturity model to create better customer experiences
https://imply.io/post/implys-real-time-analytics-maturity-model
I write for fun and you will see a wide variety of topics in my newsletter ranging from the intricacies of Quantum Physics in modern era to the double suicide of Cleopatra & Mark Anthony in ancient world and anything in between.
More on why to subscribe and to get a sense of topics in the newsletter - read on below:
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to read interesting stories from history including:
Roman History
Julius Caesar - rise through the ranks to become the most powerful man ever in the Roman Empire, the strategic and brave conquest of Gaul, Roman Republic to Roman Empire , the formation of first Triumvirate and then the betrayal and assassination by most trusted
Mark Anthony, revenging the assassination of Julius Caesar, love and betrayal by Cleopatra and a glorious career ending with suicide
Egyptian History (Ptolemy dynasty, rise and fall of Cleopatra and her lovers)
Slow rise, fall followed by meteoric rise and then spread of Christianity including - persecution of Christians in Roman empire, the great fire of Rome, establishment of Constantinople as a corner stone for the spread of Christianity , conquest and desecration of Hagia Sophia and sad fall of last emperor of Eastern Roman empire in the hands of rising Ottoman empire
Columbus’ invasion of South America and total destruction of the entire civilization
to read interesting stories from physics including:
why is there uncertainty in Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
who were behind the curtain physicists responsible for the discovery of the General and Special theory of relativity (Paul Dirac, Faraday, Maxwell and others)
Universe’s impending cold death
what is Dark Matter and why it matter
what is Dark Energy and why it is pervasive and yet elusive
to read interesting stories from mathematics including:
real stories of the founders of Calculus (not Newton or Leibniz)
rivalry of Newton and Hooke
Newton’s famous quote “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giant” was an apparent barb towards Hooke’s short stature trying to disregard Hooke’s work)
interesting world of Taylor series
some of the most beautiful equations and paradoxes of mathematics
to read about technology stuff including:
how to calculate the valuation of a tech startup (e.g. we will do an exercise to find the valuation of Clubhouse)
how to compare job offers from two tech startups (focussed on the comparison of equity component)
how to build and scale a tech startup
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