Lessons Learned from Freelancing and Working in a Start-up - Antonis Stellas

We talked about;

• Antonis' background
• The pros and cons of working for a startup
• Useful skills for working at a startup and the Lean way to work
• How Antonis joined the DataTalks.Club community
• Suggestions for students joining the MLOps course
• Antonis contributing to Evidently AI
• How Antonis started freelancing
• Getting your first clients on Upwork
• Pricing your work as a freelancer
• The process after getting approved by a client
• Wearing many hats as a freelancer and while working at a startup
• Other suggestions for getting clients as a freelancer
• Antonis' thoughts on the Data Engineering course
• Antonis' resource recommendations

Links:

• Lean Startup by Eric Ries: https://theleanstartup.com/
• Lean Analytics: https://leananalyticsbook.com/
• Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-machine-learning/9781098107956/
• Kafka Streaming with python by Khris Jenkins tutorial video: https://youtu.be/jItIQ-UvFI4

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