enel_el_thor
enel_el_thor
Wells Fargo

Strategy to convert an ML role

Hey people of Grapevine,

I have an MBA in finance and I'm currently working as a QA data analyst at Wells Fargo. I have a previous 1 year 3 months workex as an Android developer in a startup company (I'm a CS undergrad).

The current role I'm working in requires coding in python to automate Excel files we get to check certain data standards for compliance and validate Excel files based on some standards. Mostly even manual validation of excel files.

I want to switch my job to work in good ML projects with finance as my domain, for this I have made a strategy:

  1. Get a FRM level 1 certification (for the CV to get shortlisted)
  2. Learn ML on Kaggle and solve problem sets as a way to prepare for the interviews of ML roles.
  3. I'm considering to get an FDP certification as well. (https://fdpinstitute.org/Curriculum-Overview)

My concerns now are:

  1. Is the above a valid startegy to crack a fin ML role? (please suggest if anything better)
  2. Is FDP a good certification (I know it's not much heard of, but the curriculum is good)
  3. What kind of companies and roles can I apply for if add these CV points and if I can get skilled in the above?

Please do give me your inputs. Any kind of suggestions are appreciated.

12mo ago
TheOatmeal
TheOatmeal
Stealth12mo

In your case i would have built a solid Kaggle profile and move in internal roles in ML. Try to participate in Kaggle competitions. Your developer experience will help in this. Don’t be in hurry with your goals.

LazyTile27
LazyTile27
Walmart12mo

@TheOatmeal - If you are aware, could you let me know what are the pre requisites before moving to kaggle makes sense? E.g complete some courses of Andrew Ng, if yes then which ones? Or do some 1 year program e.g on from IIIT Bangalore.
I have 11+yoe in full stack, and predominantly backend in distributed systems.

In short, looking for some course path from someone who has done this before.

TheOatmeal
TheOatmeal
Stealth12mo

Andrew Ng’s Machine learning would be the best one to start with. Coursera me free me mil jayega. As a developer it will not take much time for you to pick Up Python and SQL.
Uske baad do a course from Udemy. Jose Portilla courses are great. During these play around in Kaggle. Once you are able to solve one Dataset. Then move to Deep Learning and NLP :)

Personal projects showcase karna ho toh NLP based ChatBots. Uske age LLm model train karna ho toh Hugging Face tutorials.

Elon_Musk
Elon_Musk
X.com12mo

FRM doesn't help with regular ml jobs. And I don't know what FDP is.

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