My professional journey started at the age of 17 when I moved 10,000 miles away from everyone I knew to the opposite end of the planet at UC San Diego, and became a part of their inaugural Data Science major. Working on ML Systems Research for 2.5 years, including a Data Platform for scalable Deep Learning, Transfer Learning with CNNs, and scalable systems for GCNs was my introduction to Deep Learning and unlocked publications and recognition at CIDR & ACM SIGMOD. My first professional experiences with some of the leaders in the Financial, Consulting, Pricing, and Enterprise Software domains involved: 📄 Inventing a tool with a novel ML workflow to parse US Companies' Filings 🤖 Developed a chatbot for a $200,000 client proposal 🚩 Formulating a preprocessing framework to automat...