Tag: Career Change
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How to Become a Data Scientist From an Infra, SRE or VMware Background
If you run infrastructure, carry an SRE pager or administer VMware, you already own half of a data science career. Here is the order to build the other half, with a resource mapped to every step.
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Data Science Interviews and Specialisation for Infra Engineers (Infra to Data Science Series, Part 26)
A data science loop runs four to six rounds, and the one that screens out switchers is the case and statistics round, not coding. Prepare for the interview that exists and specialise toward MLOps, where your operations background is an edge.
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Data Science Portfolio and Resume for Infra Engineers (Infra to Data Science Series, Part 25)
Your infrastructure projects are already a data science portfolio. This part translates an operations resume into outcomes a data team reads and turns your telemetry work into two or three projects that get the interview.
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Python for Data Work, Past Automation Scripting (Infra to Data Science Series, Part 5)
Your automation scripts already move data. This part turns that habit into data code: load a month of cluster metrics with pandas, catch the dtype trap that silently breaks a metric column, and see why iterrows is slower than the plain loop you already write.
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Data Science Transition Roadmap and Timeline for Infra Engineers (Infra to Data Science Series, Part 4)
How long the move from infrastructure to data science really takes, broken into four phases you can hold against a calendar, with the sideways move that beats quitting for a bootcamp.
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Operations Mindset vs Data Science Mindset for Infra Engineers (Infra to Data Science Series, Part 3)
An operations mindset chases zero failure; a data science mindset budgets error and ships something useful before it is perfect. Here is how an infrastructure engineer switches between the two without losing the discipline that makes them worth hiring.
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Transferable Skills for Infra Engineers Moving to Data Science (Infra to Data Science Series, Part 2)
An operator moving into data science already holds more of the job than the posting admits. How to audit your skills against a real data science job description, which transfer, which reshape, and the two gaps to close first.
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What a Data Scientist Actually Does, Compared to Infra, SRE and VMware Work (Infra to Data Science Series, Part 1)
If you run infrastructure, keep an SRE rotation or administer VMware, you are not starting data science from zero. What a data scientist actually does, where your skills already transfer, and where to start.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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