Career Strategy with Tim

At the end of last year, I sought out Tim to help me land a job as a Machine Learning Engineer. I had a background in data science but needed more experience on cloud and model deployment. He helped me with many things: - We settled on a project together to implement a tool based on LLMs and deploy the API on AWS EKS with Terraform and Kubernetes, and gave me weekly feedback on the progress and ideas for developing it further. - He recommended a certification as AWS Solution Architect Associate which I completed and helped land me the job. - He helped me craft my resume and make it much more relevant for recruiters. - He prepared me for interviews by doing mock interviews with me, both on the HR-type of questions "Describe a time where you had to learn something new in order to solve a problem", and for the technical round "Describe how you would implement a recommender system". He came prepared with challenging questions and really helped me step up my game in the interviews. I especially enjoy how hands-on he is: he is available for weekly meetings, and usually responds to any questions within a day. All-in-all, he is very knowledgeable especially when it comes to system design (Kubernetes, Database design, event-driven architectures, model deployment in the cloud). He made the path to landing my job much smoother, and I learned a ton from him. Highly recommended!

I booked resume review session. Tim spent time preparing ahead of the session (which not every mentor does!), and we discussed about the overall outcome we want from the resume, not just the technicality like re-phrasing some sentences etc. We also got to discuss some gaps I can fill in for my level of job. We will meet back again soon for another iteration :-), and also potentially about MLOps stuff.

Tim is a really hands-on mentor with a lot of industry practical tips in ML engineering. I like his approach of learning through well-structured project simple to complex concepts on top of each other. As a data scientist mentee , you’ll definitely go with Tim from notebooks to end-to-end ML application.