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.

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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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