Reading list

Books

Personal reading list of books I recommend or have read. All books are authored by their respective writers — not by me.

Over the last 10+ years in the tech industry, I've immersed myself in a diverse range of books, from technical gems to personal development classics like “High Performance Habits.” These readings symbolize my dual commitment to tech excellence and personal growth.

Tech

TBook 9

AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models

Chip Huyen

TBook 3

Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

Chip Huyen

TBook 3

Machine Learning Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges in Data Preparation, Model Building, and MLOps

Valliappa Lakshmanan, Sara Robinson & Michael Munn

TBook 2

Mining Massive Dataset

Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, & Jeffrey David Ullman

TBook 4

Clean Code in Python: Refactor your legacy code base

Mariano Anaya

TBook 2

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Richard Sutton & Andrew Barto

Beginning Blockchain: A Beginner's Guide to Building Blockchain Solutions

Beginning Blockchain: A Beginner's Guide to Building Blockchain Solutions

Bikramaditya Singhal, Gautam Dhameja & Priyansu Sekhar Panda

TBook 5

High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark

Tomasz Drabas & Denny Lee

TBook 7

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Martin Kleppmannn

TBook 1

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville

TBook 6

Data Analytics with Hadoop: An Introduction for Data Scientists

Benjamin Bengfort & Jenny Kim

TBook 8

Redis in Action

Josiah Carlson

Non-Tech

Book 18 - 2025/01

10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less

Dan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy Jr.

Book 18 - 2025/06

The Pathless Path

Paul Millerd

Book 9

Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track

Will Larson & Tanya Reilly

Book 14- 2024/03

The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Morgan Housel

Book 12 - 2024/01

The Mountain Is You

Brianna Wiest

Book 7

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Book 1

High Performance Habits

Brendon Burchard

Book 8

Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness

Book 5

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life... and Maybe the Worlds

Admiral William H. McRaven

Book 3

The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fxck

Mark Manson

Book 4

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Greg McKeown

Book 13 - 2024/02

The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

Brian Morgan & Michael Lennington

Book 10

The Millionaire Fastlane

MJ DeMarco

Book 15 - 2024/04

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

Book 16 - 2024/06

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Michael Alan Singer

Book 2

Mindset

Carol Dweck

Book 6

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

Book 17 - 2024/08

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

Book 11

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho