Lessons learned from the smartest Software Engineer I’ve met

For over 10 years, I shared a keyboard with him. Here are the things that stuck with me.

Santiago Valdarrama
4 min readJul 12, 2021
Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash

He was different, and I was young and eager to learn.

In retrospect, I’ve never grown more. The time I’ve spent in school now seems comically useless in comparison.

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Santiago Valdarrama

I build machine learning systems until 5 pm. Then I come here and tell you stories about them.