Shimul Bhowmik

Presence Reflects Growth — Not Just Experience Over the years, we often tell ourselves that "hard work speaks for itself." And to a large extent, it does. Skills, experience, and results form the foundation of professional success. But there comes a point in every career — especially mid to senior level — where what you've done is silently judged by how you carry it. Recently, I observed a subtle but powerful moment in a hiring interaction. The candidate — seasoned, capable, and technically strong — walked into the interview room. But from the very beginning, it was evident that something didn’t click. Not because he wasn’t qualified. Not because he lacked experience. But because his presence didn't signal his potential. His appearance, energy, and communication hadn't evolved with his experience. While his resume told a story of growth, his presence didn’t align with it — and that disconnect affected how he was perceived. This isn’t about being superficial. It’s about understanding that perception is part of performance, especially at higher levels of responsibilities. So what does it mean to let your growth "show"? It doesn’t mean pretending to be someone else. It means updating how your external presence reflects your internal journey. Here's how professionals can bridge that gap: 1. Signal intentionality through appearance You don’t need luxury brands, just clarity in dressing. Clean, professional, and role-appropriate attire sends a signal that you’re intentional and aware. 2. Refine your communication Senior roles aren’t just about execution — they’re about influence. Clear articulation, confident pauses, and active listening can often communicate more than technical answers. 3. Show growth through posture and energy Your posture, eye contact, and tone are constantly communicating — even when you're not. Leadership is often first felt, then heard. 4. Stay aligned with the evolving context No matter how experienced you are, the industry moves forward. Keeping up with trends, language, and tone shows you're still growing. In essence, presence is not about performance — it’s about preparedness. As you move up in your career, technical depth will open the door — but presence decides how far you’ll go inside the room. Closing Thought: "Experience earns respect.Presence earns attention.Together, they build trust." #Leadership #CareerDevelopment #PresenceMatters #EngineeringLeadership #ProfessionalGrowth #SoftSkills #CommunicationSkills #TechCareer

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ACTORS + AI: Director/Actor/Producer/Writer AI Chef 🧑‍🍳 Hans Obma visits the Cozy AI Kitchen 🎂 https://lnkd.in/gjiAvEfP to share his insights on how AI has transformed his creative processes. You may have seen Chef Hans in such 📺 hits as Better Call Saul, Wandavision, or Narcos — and yes, he's probably the most handsome AI 🧑‍🍳 chef we've had in the kitchen to date :-). Hans needed to learn a new language ... how did he do it? He got multimodal AI models to help him speak Welsh. Hans needed a way to scale how he communicated with his stakeholders ... how did he do it? He created an authentic-to-him way of scaling by creating an instant entourage of supporting agents. HT 🧑‍🍳 Ross Heise 🧑‍🍳 Matt Scholz and the power of the Wisconsin network for bringing such a storied talent to the Cozy AI Kitchen! --- This 🍰 episode: https://lnkd.in/gjiAvEfP All 50 episodes: https://lnkd.in/g6upvbGX

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AI feels less like a feature upgrade and more like a productivity shock. The closest comparison I keep coming back to is the Industrial Revolution — chaotic in the moment, transformational in hindsight. It didn’t just cut costs. It made goods abundant. I think AI does the same for services. The real divide won’t be between companies that adopt AI and those that don’t. It’ll be between those who use it to “do the same with less” and those who use it to “do exponentially more with the same.” Efficiency is table stakes. Ambition is the differentiator. I wrote a short piece expanding on this here: https://lnkd.in/gTKGr2Dm Curious where others are landing.

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Oh🚀 Big news: Beekeeper is merging with LumApps to launch the first all-in-one, AI-powered Employee Hub, connecting EVERY employee, whether they’re at a desk or on the frontline. I can't believe what a journey these past 9 years have been - it has truly been a privilege to enjoy every single day working with our team! Along the way we grew Beekeeper from a small Swiss startup to an international scale-up, growing our team 10x while 100x-ing our revenue. I so proud of what we have been able to deliver and the great work our product and engineering teams have done. It has been an honour to lead our Engineering, DevOps and Support teams from our Series-B to our merge with LumApps. Together, we’ll give 7 million users in 2,000+ companies a single home for comms, knowledge, and day-to-day tools, from HQ updates to shift swaps, right on their phones. A huge thanks to Cristian G., Flavio Pfaffhauser, Andreas Slotosch and Daniel Sztutwojner who kicked-off this journey 12 years ago, creating an amazing place to work every single day. I’m thrilled to be part of this next step working alongside Elie Mélois, Sébastien Ricard, Sébastien BOULLE, Kees de Vos, Filip Wieladek, Omar Moling, Daphne van den Brule and our amazing product & engineering teams to create a new European software powerhouse. Dive into the full story ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dGC88MKP #FrontlineSuccess #EmployeeSuccess #AI #FutureOfWork #Beekeeper #LumApps #WorkplaceTransformation

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Not every partnership is equal. The wrong one doesn’t just subtract — it inverts. It turns your strengths into liabilities and your momentum into an anchor. The right one creates leverage on everything you already are.

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🙌 Bitmovin has joined the OpenMOQ Foundation as a member. Media over QUIC (MoQ) is gaining momentum as the industry pushes toward ultra-low latency streaming and more interactive live experiences. We’re excited to collaborate with the OpenMOQ community and contribute to the continued development of MoQ alongside other industry participants. Additionally, see how Player Web X supports MoQ playback in our latest blog: https://okt.to/58gVns #MoQ #LowLatency #VideoStreaming #PlayerTech

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Gemini 3 is here. It’s our most intelligent model – and it’s available now in Google Search, starting with AI Mode. Gemini 3 brings incredible reasoning power to Search, making it easier to ask anything on your mind. It also unlocks incredibly rich new generative UI capabilities, so AI Mode can now dynamically create interactive tools and simulations on the fly to help you understand complex topics. Take for example asking AI Mode to help solve a Rubik's Cube. With Gemini 3's new gen UI capabilities, it created an interactive visualization offering strategies to master the puzzle. Proud of the phenomenal collaboration across Google Research, Google DeepMind and Google Search on this launch Dive deeper into the core principles that enabled our implementation of generative UI in our recently published Google Research paper: “Generative UI: LLMs are Effective UI Generators.” https://lnkd.in/gJmJR-EH  It’s also an exciting week because today we launched Nano Banana Pro in Search via AI Mode. Built on Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro can generate precise, detailed and contextually rich visuals with factual accuracy. Access Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro in Search by selecting the “Thinking” model in the AI Mode drop-down menu. It’s available now to all Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. and is coming to everyone in the U.S. soon.

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻–𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 Not once, but multiple times, I’ve seen the same pattern unfold inside early-stage startups with tight margins and relentless pressure to deliver. It starts with two assumptions. → The founder believes they are overspending to bring in high-quality experience. → The veteran believes the environment will be an easy sail because they’ve handled far bigger systems. Neither anticipates how every decision will be challenged inside a constraint-heavy setup. The cycle begins the moment reality replaces assumptions. ● Early phase: Veterans map the terrain, understand the product, and get a feel for the internal rhythm. ● Next phase: They apply the polished methods that worked in structured companies. ● Following phase: Those methods demand resources, teams, and stability the startup does not have. ● Pressure rises on both sides as expectations build. ● Final step: Veterans exit thinking the product has nothing worth selling; founders reinforce the belief that only they can make things move. This friction is not about ego. Both sides are defending the identities that kept them effective in their previous environments. Veterans rely on the playbooks that built their track record. Founders rely on the instincts that kept the company alive through chaos. These instincts collide when resources are thin and timelines unforgiving. Startups operate under different physics: ◆ High ambiguity. ◆ Unstable priorities. ◆ Experiments replacing established processes. ◆ Decisions made with partial information. ◆ Ideas that fail simply because the environment cannot sustain them yet. ◆ Constant need to create momentum without the usual structure. A critical layer often missed: real alignment on context at the start. ◆ What the product is today. ◆ What it can realistically deliver. ◆ What it cannot deliver yet. ◆ What the environment can absorb. ◆ What constraints shape every decision. The gap becomes most visible in front of customers. ◆ Choosing which feature request deserves to become a real product capability is hard. ◆ Deciding what to give for free vs. what can scale into paid revenue needs discipline. ◆ Knowing when to sell the product as-is vs. selling a services layer takes real startup exposure. ◆ Without this judgment, roadmaps drift and margins collapse. Without early clarity, veterans default to familiar methods, and founders expect those methods to translate. The gap widens until confidence drops on one side and patience drops on the other. Veterans feel ineffective when their strengths require maturity the startup hasn’t reached. Founders feel misaligned when decisions that worked in larger companies collapse under smaller constraints. Both walk away believing the other side missed something fundamental. This pattern repeats across roles, industries, and stages. The cause is consistent: experience built in structure does not automatically fit environments built in scarcity.

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Platform engineering is the future 🚀 Developers are at the core of everything we do at PagerDuty 💚 Our latest collaboration with Spotify for Backstage brings PagerDuty’s industry-leading Incident Management directly into Backstage, the open platform reimagining developer experience. With the new PagerDuty Plugin for Backstage, devs can see incidents, on-call context, and service ownership right where they already work : Less dilution ; More focus. Let’s go 🎉 Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/gnsq8Nr9

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