"No one is harder on a talented person than the person themselves" - Linda Wilkinson ; "Trust your guts and don't follow the herd" ; "Validate direction not destination" ;

March 13, 2019

My Career Journey

2003 - Testing windows OS is great
2004 - Coding C++ MQ adapter is interesting
2005 - Setting up an Application support team and Swiss onsite
2006 - Finding my place in Microsoft, Learning the Domain, Supply Chain
2007 - Performance, SQL Migration, Biztalk and Automation
2008 - DB Developer
2009  - BI / OLTP performance tuning / TSQL developer
2010 -  BI / OLTP performance tuning / TSQL developer
2010 - Need more $$ and challenges
2011 - Setting up Team in Amazon
2012 - Better become Individual Contributor, Again Database and QA, Setting up Team
2013 - Performance, Automation, Database development
2014 - Big data jump and getting into it
2015 - Start from scratch Data science
2016 - Data Science year 2 All 2 year Masters deep dive
2017 - Data Science year 3 Image and Data Analytics projects
2018 - Data Science year 4 Machine Learning projects
2019 - Data Science year 5 Deep learning Projects
2020 - Vision Expert and Deploying Solutions in Scale

To sum up - "Data Guy, Empirical Learner"

The days I spent weekends learning is more than my weekday efforts. I have witnessed the transformation of technology and the tools that evolved all these years. Experimenting and working on different roles, starting things from zero and re-learning has been a rewarding experience. All these years I have learned, relearnt, and still learning. Outside this life also gave me lessons and blessings.

Keep learning, Keep growing!!!

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