> "I also supported cloud computing, participating in 110 customer meetings, and created a company-wide strategy to win back the cloud with 33 specific recommendations, in collaboration with others across 6 organizations."
Man people keep count of this stuff?! Maybe I should too, it does make flexing easier.
gct 45 minutes ago [-]
At big tech you have to quantify your value like this regularly, so yeah everyone keeps track of the minutiae.
cowsandmilk 1 hours ago [-]
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.
nunez 1 hours ago [-]
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.
jcelerier 16 minutes ago [-]
... is it? I had 14 meetings with externals this week only lol
jsight 17 minutes ago [-]
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.
Neywiny 14 minutes ago [-]
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.
chanux 1 hours ago [-]
"Count your meetings"
Wouldn't hurt to try!
fn-mote 2 hours ago [-]
A "goodbye" post after only 3.5 years. Hard to relate.
In my world it's hard to imagine an impact after that short of a time. And in fact, reading the list of accomplishments ("interviewed by the Wall Street Journal") makes it clear it's a good PR piece.
I'm perfectly willing to believe he's fabulous, but this didn't move the needle for me.
rossjudson 1 hours ago [-]
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".
bibimsz 56 minutes ago [-]
ive been at my company 16 years and still haven't had an impact, so... yeah.
candeira 1 hours ago [-]
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.
seanmcdirmid 34 seconds ago [-]
I can’t tell if he is just good at self promotion or he is just good. But that’s always the case at bigcorp.
bigiain 19 minutes ago [-]
> if he didn't do better, it's because the organisation didn't let him.
The last few sentences to me read like he knows for sure that the organisation is actively working against what he sees as his important goals. Carefully worded (and likely personal lawyer approved) to avoid burning the bridges as he mic-drops and deftly avoids having the door hit him in the arse as he struts out.
smelendez 55 minutes ago [-]
> The "interviewed by the WSJ" line is for managers.
It’s a green flag for hiring managers for sure. Even a lot of valued employees wouldn’t be allowed to represent a big company to the WSJ for various reasons, even with a PR person sitting next to them.
dramm 2 hours ago [-]
A periodic reminder Intel is still in business.
wferrell 15 minutes ago [-]
So...oai or google?
bfrog 3 hours ago [-]
Intel losing great people at high speed. Not the first, not the last.
xer0x 4 hours ago [-]
Hats off to Brendan!
markus_zhang 3 hours ago [-]
Congratulations. A fulfilling life.
seneca 2 hours ago [-]
I'm guessing he'll land at one of the big frontier model companies. I'm surprised he stayed at Intel as long as he did, they are dying fast.
bigiain 17 minutes ago [-]
And it seems there's only one of them that's gonna have any new hardware that needs GPU flamegraphs to optimise...
cebert 2 hours ago [-]
I’m wonder how much longer Intel will be around. It seems to be dying a slow death like Kodak or IBM at this point.
hearsathought 22 minutes ago [-]
> 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.
ks2048 2 hours ago [-]
"death" can be pretty slow - IBM has $60B in revenue and 270K employees.
ghaff 2 hours ago [-]
And their financial/stock performance has been pretty good the past couple of years.
quotemstr 2 hours ago [-]
When Shakespeare wrote "cowards die many times before their deaths", he had Intel in mind.
chanux 1 hours ago [-]
Lindy[1] will make sure it stays around for a while.
Looks like the C64 is behind it (underneath a..?) and there’s a small corner of 5.25” diskette station further back.
Probably not his daily drivers.. :)
Keyframe 10 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, behind datasette it looks like there's C64 C parked, and above is a laser 300 (which makes sense if guy is australian) and we can also see 1541-ii behind that, on the top.
ChrisArchitect 6 hours ago [-]
Extra slash in the url
bibimsz 56 minutes ago [-]
dude loves the color salmon
Rendered at 03:13:50 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Man people keep count of this stuff?! Maybe I should too, it does make flexing easier.
I can't even say that they are wrong.
Wouldn't hurt to try!
In my world it's hard to imagine an impact after that short of a time. And in fact, reading the list of accomplishments ("interviewed by the Wall Street Journal") makes it clear it's a good PR piece.
I'm perfectly willing to believe he's fabulous, but this didn't move the needle for me.
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".
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.
The last few sentences to me read like he knows for sure that the organisation is actively working against what he sees as his important goals. Carefully worded (and likely personal lawyer approved) to avoid burning the bridges as he mic-drops and deftly avoids having the door hit him in the arse as he struts out.
It’s a green flag for hiring managers for sure. Even a lot of valued employees wouldn’t be allowed to represent a big company to the WSJ for various reasons, even with a PR person sitting next to them.
The government took an ownership stake in the company. Nvidia invested a few billion in the company. It's not going anywhere.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
That could be something mundane, but I'd like to believe something crazy happens if you yell at it [1]...
[0] https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/images/2025/brendanoffice2...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Greybeard reporting for duty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
Probably not his daily drivers.. :)