Susan Shu Chang
Susan is a Principal Data Scientist at Elastic (of Elasticsearch), with previous ML experience in fintech, telecommunications, and social platforms. She writes about machine learning career growth in her newsletter, susanshu.substack.com and is the author of Machine Learning Interviews, published by O’Reilly. On weekends, she leads a team of game developers under Quill Game Studios, with multiple games released on consoles and Steam.
Session
I'm a Principal Data Scientist and O'Reilly author of Machine Learning Interviews. How did I get here?
My educational background is in economics. As a student, I self-learned Python not for a job, but to develop video games as a hobby. How did this kickstart my career as a leader in machine learning? In this talk, I will cover an overview of the gaming industry, narrative games, and the open source game engine, Ren'Py. In addition to game development, I will cover how I've used Python in my day-to-day, from entry-level, senior, to staff+.