Hello,
I joined fast.ai in Feb 2017 and everything in my life has been upwards and onwards since then. I’ll confess that it’s still overwhelming to read the introductions in this section and find myself among such great talent. Another thing that bugs me is the fact that I’ve only lurked around and never really contributed, failing all my plans to do so.
fast.ai helped me transition jobs, countries and life. In 2018, I got a few offers directly from London, UK to work in computer vision and recommendation systems, this happened because I am fond of reading all comments, posts and blogs in this forum and that was more than needed to become an ML practitioner.
I completed my 5-year journey in the data science world in Dec 2019 and decided to step up so I quit my job in London and flew to Toronto, Canada on a tourist visa to start a company. Originally the plan was SF but visa issues killed it. I’m currently hustling, hiring, coding, reading, quarantining and of course following the classes. I’m not sure what will come out of my adventure but even attempting all this during a pandemic without any friends and family in a completely new country is making me better by the day, I guess.
Looking forward to another amazing session and hopefully some success in contributing back to fast.ai
Cheers