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karamazov

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About karamazov

I work on Espresso AI. We use AI to automatically optimize Snowflake - if you want to save 50% on your Snowflake bill, please reach out.

You can reach me at ben at espresso.ai.

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    Espresso AI | Staff ML, Staff Infra, FDE | Brooklyn or San Francisco | Full time We're using LLMs to build neural optimizers, neural scheduling systems, and neural workload tuners.…

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    Espresso AI | Staff ML & Staff Infra Engineers | Brooklyn or San Francisco | Full time We're using LLMs to build neural optimizers, neural scheduling systems, and neural workload t…

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    Espresso AI | Staff Engineers | NYC ONSITE | Full Tim We use ML to make data warehouses and spark jobs more efficient. We're hiring staff ML engineers to train models that can unde…

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    Show HN: Free Snowflake Observability

    My startup helps companies save money on Snowflake, and over the past two years we've built out a lot of observability features based on customer requests. We're launching these fe…

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    Using ML to make SQL queries more efficient. This is what my company does ( https://espresso.ai/ ), I'm taking advantage of the end of year quiet time to hack on some more R&D-styl…

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    Show HN: Optimize Databricks SQL

    I launched my startup's Snowflake optimization product here about two years ago, and we've just released our second product: a Databricks SQL optimizer. The optimizations are basic…

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    Chiming in, I'm one of the founders of Espresso AI - we do both query optimization and warehouse optimization, both of which are hands-off. In particular we're beta-testing a fully…

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    We have better tech. For our customers, this translates directly into more savings. We also have less setup and overhead than most of the other companies in the space. many of them…

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    The immediate next thing is expanding to Databricks, followed by BigQuery and other data warehouses. In the long run we plan to optimize source code (e.g. C++).

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    Espresso AI | https://espresso.ai/careers | Founding Engineer | NYC Onsite| Full-Time Espresso AI is hiring founding engineers to automate performance engineering, starting with Sn…

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    there's not a lot to demo - you just turn it on and your bill goes down. I'll try to think of something we can put up though, thanks for the note. For now I'm hoping 15 minutes is …

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    Yes, for right now. We have waiting lists for Databricks, BigQuery, and Redshift; we're hoping to get there later this year. Shoot me an email if you're interested in one of those:…

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    Show HN: Save 50% on Snowflake in 15 minutes

    I'm a former YC founder, and I've been working with some friends from Google to build Espresso AI, an ML-powered Snowflake optimizer. We use LLMs to analyze and predict your SQL wo…

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    Show HN: Save 50% on Snowflake in 15 minutes

    I'm a former YC founder, and I've been working with some friends from Google to build Espresso AI, an ML-powered Snowflake optimizer. We use LLMs to analyze and predict your SQL wo…

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    Espresso AI | https://espresso.ai/careers | Founding Engineer | NYC Onsite| Full-Time Espresso AI is hiring founding engineers to automate performance engineering, starting with Sn…

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    How's your health? The brain fog, in particular, jumps out as something that may have other causes. In particular: * Are you exercising? * Sleeping well? Sleeping consistently? * E…

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    First, a reality check - it’s great that you can ship defect-free code, but that’s table stakes for a good senior engineer. You’re locally a 10x engineer because you wrote most of …