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Alex Pongpech

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Director of Data Analytics and Data Science, PhD Program

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Technical Job Descriptions Are Changing in the Age of Agentic AI Technical Job Descriptions Are Changing in the Age of Agentic AI Lately, I have been assembling an Agentic AI team, and I was having quite a problem finding team members until it just dawned on me โ€ฆ

Lately, I have been assembling an Agentic AI team, and I was having quite a problem finding team members until it just dawned on me that the current job description I have from HR will not fit where I want to go.

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08.03.2026 12:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Five Dysfunctions of an Agentic Team The Five Dysfunctions of an Agentic Team I use Patrick Lencioniโ€™s Five Dysfunctions of a Team a lot because itโ€™s brutally practical. Itโ€™s a clean model of why human teams fail even when โ€ฆ

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03.03.2026 05:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vibe Coding: The Hidden Bane of Modern Data Engineering In classrooms, I teach students that data engineering is about discipline โ€” not decoration.

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05.11.2025 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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At Each Management Level, โ€œEnterprise AIโ€ Doesnโ€™t Mean the Same Thing At Each Management Level, โ€œEnterprise AIโ€ Doesnโ€™t Mean the Same Thing Everyone loves to say theyโ€™re building an Enterprise AI strategy. But if you ask five people in the same โ€ฆ

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27.10.2025 04:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
State of AI and Data Employment in Thailand
State of AI and Data Employment in Thailand YouTube video by Alex About Data

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22.08.2025 10:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Leading Through the Shift: How a Technical Manager Can Manage AI Team Members Thereโ€™s no denying it: AI is hereโ€Šโ€”โ€Šand itโ€™s not going anywhere. Weโ€™ve crossed the threshold where automation is no longer a threat but a reality. And yes, some roles will be replaced, redefined, orโ€ฆ

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Managing technical team with AI members

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17.08.2025 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From Fantasy to Function: A Technical Consultantโ€™s Guide to Agentic AI As a technical consultant, Iโ€™ve sat in countless meetings where the clientโ€™s vision for Agentic AI clashes with the present-day reality of the technology. The conversation usually follows aโ€ฆ

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13.08.2025 23:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Transforming Retail Operations: A GenAI Management Framework for Business Unit Leaders The retail industry stands at a unique inflection point with generative AI adoption. While a large number of retail enterprises in Thailand report experimenting with GenAI tools, very few achievedโ€ฆ

This article presents a specialized framework for managing GenAI adoption in retail business units, drawing from implementations across major retail chains and emerging direct-to-consumer brands.

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12.08.2025 10:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To Succeed in the Age of AI, We Need to Be Better Humans Yesterday, our departmentโ€Šโ€”โ€ŠManagement of Analytics and Data Technologyiesโ€”โ€Šhosted a major AI Expo focused on how to survive and thrive in the age of AI. During the event, I shared a brief reflectionโ€ฆ

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10.08.2025 23:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I Got Hired as a Fractional CTO to Clean Up the Data Stack, Data Culture and Reorganize for a Sale When I walked into the company for the first time, I could smell the fear of due diligence.

My new article
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18.04.2025 09:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One to bully you,
one to con you,
and one to EU

16.04.2025 12:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This isnโ€™t about our international peers no longer trusting us as a people; it's about their inability to trust the American voters.

13.04.2025 22:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who would have thought that after trying so hard to prevent WW3, we would eventually start it?

08.04.2025 06:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finally, the US is bringing the world together. unfortunately against the US

01.04.2025 19:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Safe in BKk

28.03.2025 08:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

shooting yourselves in the foot, Brexit and the tariffs

23.03.2025 06:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Applying Lean Production to Data Product Development In this article, I discuss how lean production principles can be applied to building data products. As a CTO, I often see organizations pouring resources into data product development with little toโ€ฆ

In this article, I discuss how lean production principles can be applied to building data products. As a CTO, I often see organizations pouring resources into data product development with little to show for it beyond bloated infrastructure and dashboards nobody uses.

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04.03.2025 09:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Julius Broomfield, Kartik Sharma, Srijan Kumar
A Thousand Words or An Image: Studying the Influence of Persona Modality in Multimodal LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20504

03.03.2025 08:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bluesky has now replaced twitter as the top platform for finding out if there was an earthquake in LA

03.03.2025 06:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 45092 ๐Ÿ” 3079 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 405 ๐Ÿ“Œ 107
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Outstanding โ€ผ๏ธ

02.03.2025 18:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 48614 ๐Ÿ” 9561 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 806 ๐Ÿ“Œ 469

Richest guy in the world telling us we canโ€™t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

02.03.2025 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 47266 ๐Ÿ” 10355 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1142 ๐Ÿ“Œ 327

It didnโ€™t take one elected president to move the country back to the Stone Age. It took a whole lot of people who elected him to the presidency. The root of the problem is much deeper than just one single political party.

23.02.2025 04:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

awesome read

19.02.2025 11:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donโ€™t Be a Manager Who Wants a Flying Pig Iโ€™ve seen my fair share of management absurdities, but nothing beats the classic scenario where a manager asks for the impossibleโ€Šโ€”โ€Šwhat I call the Flying Pig Syndrome. Most of my students haveโ€ฆ

Iโ€™ve seen my fair share of management absurdities, but nothing beats the classic scenario where a manager asks for the impossibleโ€Šโ€”โ€Šwhat I call the Flying Pig Syndrome. Most of my students have definitely heard this flying pig exclamation.

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14.02.2025 10:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Introducing Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science Published in Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New Journal!

Introducing Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science

@tandfresearch.bsky.social #statistics #datascience #environment
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12.02.2025 11:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The proof is in the pudding.

21.01.2025 04:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's still very difficult to comprehend, but yeah, if you donโ€™t show up, then this is what happens.

21.01.2025 04:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Besides Mark Cuban, I would love to read more about good guys who win. Lately, the scoreboard has been tilting to the dark side.

17.01.2025 03:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Data Liquidityโ€™s Impact on Information Resilience I wrote this article for my PhD students to highlight the crucial connection between data liquidity and information resilience. In theโ€ฆ

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12.01.2025 04:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Generative AI: The Game Changer for Data Engineering Best Practices As a CTO and technical advisor, Iโ€™ve witnessed firsthand how generative AI is revolutionizing data engineering. This technology is not about replacing human expertise but enhancing our capabilitiesโ€ฆ

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10.01.2025 00:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0