Three months ago, I posted on LinkedIn explaining why I wanted to transition into Machine Learning Engineering. Then I disappeared.
Not because I gave up; quite the opposite.
These past three months were spent deep-diving into the world of Machine Learning and AI. I restructured my professional and social media environment entirely, building an ecosystem that keeps my mind anchored in the field I want to enter. I started working through the courses on my roadmap, picked up some solid certifications along the way, and went from being someone who was simply passionate about ML to someone who can actually follow and contribute to a real conversation on the subject.
But I won’t pretend the motivation was purely career-driven. That wouldn’t be entirely true.
What really lit the fire was a contract I accepted before I was ready. A friend came to me with a project: build a platform with an AI component behind it. In my head, I knew I could handle the platform side, but the AI part? I had barely scratched the surface. Linear regression was about the extent of my knowledge at the time.
My answer was still “yes, I can do it.”
I took the project knowing it would force me to take my learning seriously. There’s nothing like a paid contract to turn “I’ll get to it eventually” into “I need to understand this now.” A win-win situation, really. I’ll share more about the AI component once I’m closer to completing it.
Alongside this project, I made two other decisions that I believe will define this journey.
The first is this blog. A place where I document what I learn, share my honest progress, and leave a trace of where I started. The second is starting a YouTube channel, where I’ll break down ML concepts the way I wish they had been explained to me clearly, from a learner’s perspective, with real code.
Both feel less like obligations and more like anchors. Proof of evolution. Something I’ll look back on with pride when I reach where I’m going.
So if you’re in the middle of your own ML journey, if you’re a senior curious to watch a junior figure things out, or if you’re simply interested in how this story unfolds, follow along.
See you in the next one.
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