The last decade of my career has been a journey of continuous learning and gradual transitions. It started in school with Visual Basic and Oracle SQL, moved into Java, C#, and PHP during college, and eventually led to the Java Spring stack in my early professional years.
As I moved into mid-senior roles, my focus shifted to the frontend with jQuery, Angular, and React. Eventually, I branched out into Cloud-Native technologies like Kubernetes. Today, I’m working with Node.js, Python, and AI. Moving from greenfield product development to setting up build pipelines and observability has taught me a lot. Even with years of momentum, the rapid advancement of AI brings a fresh set of challenges.
I believe the era of “pure” coding is soon going to be history. AI-augmented coding is the new standard—at least for the next few years, until the next big tech revolution changes the way how we work, again.
Machine Learning has always felt magical to me, even though it is essentially highly engineered math rooted in data and statistics. I remember building my first ML project in college—a handwriting recognition tool. That project sparked a deep curiosity, but I never had the time to fully dive in because my passion for building software always took priority.
Now, I am finally taking the time to jump into ML and AI Engineering full-time. I’ve joined a 9-week intensive course at Ironhack to build my foundations from the ground up. The goal is to learn everything from building ML models to fine-tuning LLMs and SLMs—skills I’ve already started exploring during my time at IU.
I am already into Week 2 and have learned so much about NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn. It’s overwhelming, but incredibly interesting to see how accessible it has become to build and understand these models.
What’s next? I’m looking forward to bringing this new expertise to my next role. By integrating AI/ML with my background in Frontend and Kubernetes, I hope to build something truly meaningful. This transition feels like a natural “gear shift,” and I am excited to find a place where these combined skills can be put to good use.