Having spent my career, first as a technology consultant, then in software architecture and management I’ve always gravitated to hands-on data-centric projects. In 2022 I took a sabbatical to help family members. During that time I had the opportunity to work on training material for data engineering and science. That was it - I made the decision to pivot completely and focus on an independent contributor role revolving around data engineering and MLops.

I took data engineering, data science and machine learning courses during that time and am now hoping to take the first steps towards contributing to the exciting field of data science and machine learning.