Staff AI Engineer - Tatiana Gabruseva

We talked about:

• Tatiana’s background
• Going from academia to healthcare to the tech industry
• What staff engineers do
• Transferring skills from academia to industry and learning new ones
• The importance of having mentors
• Skipping junior and mid-level straight into the staff role
• Convincing employers that you can take on a lead role
• Seeing failure as a learning opportunity
• Preparing for coding interviews
• Preparing for behavioral and system design interviews
• The importance of having a network and doing mock interviews
• How much do staff engineers work with building pipelines, data science, ETC, MPOps, etc.?
• Context switching
• Advice for those going from academia to industry
• The most exciting thing about working as an AI staff engineer
• Tatiana’s book recommendations

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatigabru/ 
• Twitter:  https://twitter.com/tatigabru
• Github: https://github.com/tatigabru
• Website:  http://tatigabru.com/

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