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Pastor Soto

Pastor Soto's DataTalks.Club podcast discussions, organized for topic exploration.

Pastor Soto

Background

Pastor Soto is a Machine Learning Engineer and mentor with a practical bias toward shipping. While studying medicine at the university, he took on side work that pulled him into machine learning. The inflection point was ML Zoomcamp: by publishing exercises and projects publicly, he attracted interviews and job offers.

Podcast Discussions

• From Medicine to Machine Learning: Skill Stacking, Public Learning & Freelance-Driven Career Building. Discussed: Guest Overview: Transition from Medicine and Criminology to Machine Learning; Career Trajectory: Statistician → Data Analyst → Data Engineer; Skill Progression: SPSS, Excel, R, and Transition to Python; Freelancing Beginnings: First Upwork Gigs and Early Projects. Related topics: machine learning, data science, data engineering, MLOps, career transition.