7 lessons I’ve learned about starting a career in machine learning.

About taking action, your approach, communities, and shortcuts.

Santiago Valdarrama
4 min readJun 10, 2021

Right about when the pandemic started, I started helping others divert themselves into machine learning. It was mostly software engineers looking to learn new skills and people migrating from less lucrative careers.

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Santiago Valdarrama

I build machine learning systems until 5 pm. Then I come here and tell you stories about them.