From front-end deployment platform to full stack application platform. Netlify Database is live.

Several leaders I deeply respect and admire have reached out to me to ask how I became "an AI expert." (I am not. Few can claim to be.) What happened was that I took time off after layoffs to read textbooks about machine learning and joined the budding AI and startup community here in London. Then I started consulting with startups in the Bay Area who are trying to reach the developers I understood so well. I was able to integrate with their engineering teams and learn so much from them. The best thing you can do is to work with curious people who are using the tools, reading the papers, and building things. "Fear is the mind killer." And if you or your team is afraid, you need to change that. I keep prioritising working with people who are fearlessly learning and building and with leadership that trusts me and "lets me cook." I traded coveted titles for knowledge and experience, and surrounded myself with builders, doing work instead of talking about it. Perhaps the right long-term play was to stick to "Titles & Talking." But these have been some of the most interesting and exciting years of my tech career. I have learned so much more about how to pivot and move fast from all the startups I've been with; how to build with AI, and how to see into the future. I feel I've grown so much more professionally than if I had kept hunkering down in Big Tech. To all I have worked with and who have taken a chance on working with me, I'm grateful. I am so happy.