I switched to ML .. well .. Deep Learning in a big way in 2018. Switched from Cloud backend engineering/research(which I had been doing since its early days). I gotta say ..not the smartest move in hindsight. Peers doing cloud are now in very high positions as corps grew rapidly in that area and needed technical leadership. DL is very math intensive and it took me a while to get my sea legs. I finally feel pretty comfortable in my (technical) neck of the woods, and realize it is all going to get blown away soon by newer advances (LLMs, stable diffusion, NERFs).
I don't think my career is anywhere close to a rocket ship at the moment .. there is a chance that ML/DL gets a lot bigger in the next 2-3 years (e.g. Satya Nadella's recent talk circuits, that is the timeline he predicts). What this means for me is that I need to get exceptionally lucky to get on to the next rocket ship. I have no clue who that is, despite having a CV for it.
Not discouraging you but just sharing my journey. If anyone has any suggestions for what the rocket ship, please enlighten me.
I don't think my career is anywhere close to a rocket ship at the moment .. there is a chance that ML/DL gets a lot bigger in the next 2-3 years (e.g. Satya Nadella's recent talk circuits, that is the timeline he predicts). What this means for me is that I need to get exceptionally lucky to get on to the next rocket ship. I have no clue who that is, despite having a CV for it.
Not discouraging you but just sharing my journey. If anyone has any suggestions for what the rocket ship, please enlighten me.