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Alvaro Navas Peire

Alvaro Navas Peire's DataTalks.Club podcast discussions, organized for topic exploration.

Alvaro Navas Peire

Background

Born in Barcelona, Spain. Grew up there until my teenage years, in which I moved to Andorra and lived there until university time. Studied “Informatics engineering” (a sort of mix between computer science and engineering) back in Barcelona and had a wild time in university by joining lots of clubs and not studying at all. After graduating, I joined a small company which sold Chinese-designed Android smartphones under their own brand; I tested a couple of models and underwent the required homologation process that cell phone carriers used to require in order to have them sell your phones and managed to get a model approved before the company changed investors and decided to focus their.

Podcast Discussions

• Transition from QA to Machine Learning & Data Engineering: Projects, Cloud & Interview Prep. Discussed: Early Life & Informatics Engineering; phone industry beginnings; Phone prototyping and field testing: QA checklists, CTS & RF testing; Career pivot: quitting QA, gap year, and discovering machine learning; Structured learning path: postgraduate course, Neuromatch Academy, ML & Data. Related topics: QA, machine learning, data engineering, career transition, job search.