Trained as a Mechanical Engineer. Ended up as a Data Science Engineer.
Since young, I have always been interested in how things work. My initial interest was mainly focused on mechanical systems such as cars and complex machinery, which led to my studies in mechanical engineering. During my graduate studies at MIT, I worked with Analog Devices to develop an anomaly detection system using machine learning to improve their manufacturing yield. This sparked an interest in data science that led me to my current role in Micron as a data science engineer.
I develop and deploy machine learning solutions
I develop and deploy machine learning solutions to enhance manufacturing processes. As a data science engineer, we are not only concerned with the training and implementation of a machine learning model, we are also concerned on how to bring this machine learning solution to production. The integration of the designed solution together with existing manufacturing and operational systems is critical to a successful deployment.
Diverse team, community and culture
In my current position, I've had the pleasure of working with a diverse team of people across different borders. It's really amazing how each team member brings their own knowledge, experience and expertise to help develop a solution to enhance our manufacturing processes.
Micron has also developed a data science community culture that readily shares new ideas and insights into different algorithms and approaches to the existing problems. The openness encourages rapid collaboration and development.
Furthermore, we are regularly updated on the business impact and value that our solutions bring to the company, showing us just how much we are directly contributing to the success of the company.
Everything seems difficult until you understand it, so don't give up!
When you are enter a new role or start learning a new skill, everything will always seem difficult or overwhelming at first. However, as time passes and you understand more about the subject, it seems to become easier.
This change in perception has huge implications as the difficulty of the subject never changed, only your perception of it. So the next time you feel the subject is too difficult, perhaps you have just not understood it enough yet, so don't give up and keep on trying!
Development ownership of various aspects of the project
I've had the opportunity to take over the development of an API, UI and also helping design the future system architecture. The API and UI gave me lots of experience with working on the front-end side of things, interacting with end-users and ensuring a smooth user experience.
Helping design the future system architecture for the next phase of the project has also been really rewarding. Having to consider how the various components fit together in a huge project and their limitations has deepened the depth of my technical knowledge and provided valuable experience on system design architecture. The new architecture will radically pave the way for rapid prototyping of machine learning solutions towards anomaly detection.
