How To Become a Jr Machine Learning Engineer | FAANG Lead ML Engineer @MelkeyDev

Alex (Melkey Dev) is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon. In this episode, he shares his journey into the world of AI and gives invaluable advice on how you can do the same thing yourself. This refreshing episode has lit a fire under me to go harder than ever in tech, and I hope it will do the same for you. Enjoy! Melkey's Socials: Twitter:   / melkeydev   YouTube: https://t.co/WGegciszSw Twitch: https://t.co/rbbsKAciU4 Book a 1:1 w/ me! - https://topmate.io/realchrissean Zero To Mastery Courses I That I Recommend Below: Master React.js Here: https://bit.ly/LearnReactNow Complete Jr to Sr Web Dev Roadmap: https://bit.ly/Jr2SrRoadMap Master FAANG Coding Interviews: https://bit.ly/FAANGPREP Chris Sean Talks Podcast: https://spoti.fi/2YuqPEY TikTok & Twitter: @RealChrisSean Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:10 Unique path into Machine Learning 1:40 - Learning AI before the LLM boom 2:35 - Why did you dive into AI so early? 5:15 - Did you expect AI to boom so soon? 7:21 - What is an ML engineer? 11:13 - How to become a Jr ML Engineer with no degree in 2023? 17:54 - How to become an ML engineer at Startup? 21:09 - The differences between interviewing at FAANG vs Startups 22:14 - Is FAANG easier to interview for than Startups? 25:07 - How to become good at LeetCode? 29:31 - Why so many people quit learning code 37:46 - My biggest regret in tech 41:49 - How many times I almost left YouTube 45:37 - The pressures of working in tech 54:09 - Why FAANG? 56:57 - What do ML Engineers often fail at during the ML Interview? 59:35 - Losing that hunger in tech 01:00:00 - How much do you make at FAANG now? 01:07:05 - We need to hang out more often 01:09:00 - last message from Melkey