A machine learning engineer at LinkedIn shares his career transition from professional violinist to data scientist, enabled by LinkedIn's REACH apprenticeship program for non-traditional tech backgrounds. He describes working on LinkedIn's feed recommendation algorithm, handling big data at the scale of 500 million rows using Spark and Hadoop, and founding a data club for ML apprentices. His advice centers on finding passion in the work and staying curious about how technology can improve people's lives.
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Making the leap from music to LinkedIn Engineering with REACHRefining the LinkedIn member experience445 Impressions