From Testing Phones to Managing NLP Projects - Alvaro Navas Peire

We talked about: Alvaro’s background Working as a QA (Quality Assurance) engineer Transitioning from QA to Machine Learning Gathering knowledge about ML field Searching for an ML job (improving soft skills and CV) Data science interview skills Zoomcamp projects Zoomcamp project deployment How to not undersell yourself during interviews Alvaro’s experience with interviews during his transition Alvaro’s Zoomcamp notes Alvaro’s coach The importance of mathematical knowledge to a transition into ML Preparing for technical interviews Alvaro’s typical workday Alvaro’s team’s tech stack The importance of a technical background to transitioning into ML Links: Alvaro's CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/89hkt3ug0toqa2n/CV%20nou%20-%20angl%C3%A8s.pdf?dl=0 Github profile: https://github.com/ziritrion LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaronavas/ ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcampJoin  DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html