Real-world insights on AI, data engineering, and career growth from someone who builds and ships production systems at enterprise scale.https://anishekkamal.com/en-ushello@anishekkamal.com (Anishek Kamal)https://anishekkamal.com/blog/prompt-engineering-real-skill/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/prompt-engineering-real-skill/What actually separates a production prompt from a demo one. Personas, output formats, edge cases, and few-shot design from 10+ years shipping LLMs. — 7 min read.Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIPrompt EngineeringAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-first-agentic-system/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-first-agentic-system/The real challenges of building multi-step AI agents — tool design, error recovery, latency, and framework tradeoffs from enterprise production experience. — 8 min read.Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIAgentsAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/rag-vs-fine-tuning/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/rag-vs-fine-tuning/When to use RAG vs fine-tune your LLM. A production-tested decision framework from someone who has shipped both at enterprise scale. Clear criteria, zero hype. — 7 min read.Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTAIArchitectureRAGfine-tuningLLMretrieval-augmented generationvector databaseproduction AIAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/break-into-data-engineering-2025/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/break-into-data-engineering-2025/A realistic roadmap to break into data engineering in 2025: which tools to learn, what to ship, and what hiring managers actually care about. — 8 min read.Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTCareerData Engineeringdata engineering 2025break into data engineeringdata engineering careerSQLdbtAirflowAzureAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/junior-vs-senior-data-engineer/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/junior-vs-senior-data-engineer/The difference between a junior and senior data engineer has little to do with years. It is about judgment, communication, and how they handle ambiguity. — 6 min read.Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTCareerEngineeringAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/microsoft-vs-startups/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/microsoft-vs-startups/What Microsoft and other enterprises teach that startups miss, and what startups do right that enterprises desperately need. Field notes from both worlds. — 7 min read.Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTCareerStartupsAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-while-immigrant/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-while-immigrant/The hidden weight of building a startup as an immigrant — visa pressure, cultural identity, and the calculations that shape every career move. — 9 min read.Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTPersonalImmigrationAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/why-i-started-advising-startups/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/why-i-started-advising-startups/Why I built a portfolio career in tech — full-time at Microsoft plus advising startups plus building products. How cross-pollination compounds judgment. — 5 min read.Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTCareerStartupsAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/ai-workloads-cloud-cost/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/ai-workloads-cloud-cost/Why AI workloads blow up cloud bills, where the cost really goes, and the strategies production teams use to keep inference from destroying unit economics. — 7 min read.Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTAICloudCostAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/containers-every-engineer/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/containers-every-engineer/Containers changed how software ships. Here is what every engineer — frontend, backend, data, ML — should understand about them, even without writing Dockerfiles. — 6 min read.Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTInfrastructureEngineeringAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/ai-for-startups/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/ai-for-startups/Where AI genuinely creates leverage for early-stage founders and where it just wastes time. Practical advice with no research team and no million-dollar budget. — 5 min read.Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTAIStartupsAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/data-engineering-and-ai/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/data-engineering-and-ai/The data layer is the bottleneck in almost every AI project. Why data engineering is the real backbone of every successful AI initiative in production. — 6 min read.Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTData EngineeringAIAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/from-india-to-microsoft/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/from-india-to-microsoft/The real story behind the immigrant tech journey — visa stress, identity, doubt, and what actually got me from India to a career at Microsoft. — 8 min read.Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTCareerImmigrationAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-toya/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-toya/What I learned building Toya — a personal finance app born from 140K in personal debt. What I would do differently and what nearly made me quit. — 7 min read.Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTStartupsFinTechAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/real-time-data-streaming/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/real-time-data-streaming/Why modern data systems need streaming, when batch is still fine, and what it actually takes to build pipelines that move at the speed of your business. — 7 min read.Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTData EngineeringAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/agentic-ai-reality/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/agentic-ai-reality/What "agentic AI" really means, why most implementations miss the point, and what it takes to build agents that work reliably beyond the demo. — 7 min read.Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTAIArchitectureAnishek Kamalhttps://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-in-public-immigrant-founder/https://anishekkamal.com/blog/building-in-public-immigrant-founder/Why building in public is a strategic advantage for immigrant founders, not just a habit. How visibility opened doors I did not know existed. — 5 min read.Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTStartupsPersonal BrandAnishek Kamal