Secrets
My thoughts on when and what to share about your work.
2024-06-28 • 3 min
Benyamin Damircheli
Prev infra @ AWS, CS and business dual degree student @ UBC.
I'm a Computer Science and Business dual-degree student at the University of British Columbia. This summer, I interned at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where I worked on infrastructure for AWS Step Functions. Whenever I am not at school or working, I've been building Halo, an AI executive assistant for individuals that proactively gets things done for you. More on this soon.
I'm a deeply technical person and I enjoy building, learning, and breaking things. I care about understanding how systems work and designing novel solutions to the problems I can't stop thinking about. Right now, I'm most interested in human-AI interaction and proactive AI assistants.
If you want to get to know me better, check out my , my , or what I'm .
- Studying at UBC. Building Halo when I'm not.
Notable Work
A selection of my work from internships and side projects to fun experiments.
AWS Step Functions
Saved 70K+ annually by optimizing deletion background jobs for AWS Step Functions
Cicero
A proof of concept for crowdsourcing urban policy with AI agents.
Mirror
Local personal answer engine for all files on your computer.
Audio2Vec
A fun audio embedding model I made in 30 minutes.
Writing
An assortment of my perspectives, thoughts, and ideas.
Reading
Books and articles I've read since 2021 and would recommend.
RemarkableIn Progress
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
by Ben Horowitz
Dune
by Frank Herbert
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
by Richard W. Hamming
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gödel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas Hofstadter
How to Do Great Work
by Paul Graham
What You'll Wish You'd Known
by Paul Graham
Build
by Tony Fadell
Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
The Beginning of Infinity
by David Deutsch
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
Principles
by Ray Dalio
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Zero to One
by Peter Thiel
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
The Fall of Heaven
by Andrew Scott Cooper
Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson
Shoe Dog
by Phil Knight
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
Blitzscaling
by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
Lords of the Desert
by James Barr
Elon Musk
by Ashlee Vance
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho