In this podcast episode, we talked with Alexander Guschin about launching a career off Kaggle.

About the Speaker: Alexander Guschin is a Machine Learning Engineer with 10+ years of experience, a Kaggle Grandmaster ranked 5th globally, and a teacher to 100K+ students. He leads DS and SE teams and contributes to open-source ML tools. 0:00 Starting with Machine Learning: Challenges and Early Steps 13:05 Community and Learning Through Kaggle Sessions 17:10 Broadening Skills Through Kaggle Participation 18:54 Early Competitions and Lessons Learned 21:10 Transitioning to Simpler Solutions Over Time
23:51 Benefits of Kaggle for Starting a Career in Machine Learning
29:08 Teamwork vs. Solo Participation in Competitions
31:14 Schoolchildren in AI Competitions 42:33 Transition to Industry and MLOps 50:13 Encouraging teamwork in student projects 50:48 Designing competitive machine learning tasks 52:22 Leaderboard types for tracking performance 53:44 Managing small-scale university classes 54:17 Experience with Coursera and online teaching 59:40 Convincing managers about Kaggle's value 61:38 Secrets of Kaggle competition success 63:11 Generative AI's impact on competitive ML 65:13 Evolution of automated ML solutions 66:22 Reflecting on competitive data science experience

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