At big tech you have to quantify your value like this regularly, so yeah everyone keeps track of the minutiae.

If you look at many of his recent blog entries, it is clear he has felt the need to quantify his impact to prove he isn’t less effective as a remote employee in Australia working for a company in the US.

A lot of people consider score keeping like this to be more important than the job itself.

I can't even say that they are wrong.

Use gcalcli to search for meetings with customer invited. That's it! Also, for an engineer that isn't in sales, 110 customer meetings is A LOT.

I mean maybe. We often have weekly customer meetings. One of my programs has 2 customers, we meet with both weekly. So do I put idk 200+ customer meetings? That seems like a weird metric because it's like "compiled code 400 times." I've seen resumes that have the same vibe. We did not hire them. Sometimes it's very telling what people think are accomplishments.

"Count your meetings"

Wouldn't hurt to try!

Clicking through his links to various posts about e.g. stack pointers or flame graphs, my takeaway is he's an outlier in productivity, and got a lot done in 3.5 years at a monstrously large organization.

I'm pretty envious of his capabilities, in 3.5 years I can ship a couple webapps, I would never personally get JVM compilation flags added.

It didn't move the needle for you.

For other people, they're going to be thinking "some other company is going to get one of the most effective and impactful performance engineers on the planet".

ive been at my company 16 years and still haven't had an impact, so... yeah.

Dude shipped flamegraphs (which he also created in 2011) for cloud GPU loads and persuaded internal stakeholders to release the code as open source.

The "interviewed by the WSJ" line is for managers. Reading between the lines, I'd say he did really well and, if he didn't do better, it's because the organisation didn't let him.

Yahoo. They're due for a comeback

And it seems there's only one of them that's gonna have any new hardware that needs GPU flamegraphs to optimise...

> I’m wonder how much longer Intel will be around.

The government took an ownership stake in the company. Nvidia invested a few billion in the company. It's not going anywhere.

"death" can be pretty slow - IBM has $60B in revenue and 270K employees.

Lindy[1] will make sure it stays around for a while.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Intel still sells a ton of silicon.

Where do you think he's going next? OpenAI? Google? Just saving 1% on inference could probably justify his salary 100fold

> cassette deck on his desk

Greybeard reporting for duty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette