From deep learning architect at AWS to PM in AI product - Abhi Sharma - the data scientist show #052

Abhi Sharma started his career as a software engineer at Amazon Lab 126, building cloud services for Alexa. Later he transferred to Amazon Web Services as a deep learning architect. We used to work at the same team at machine learning solutions lab in AWS. Currently, he is a product manager, responsible for machine learning products like chatbot at Chime. We talked about how he transitioned his career from software engineer to deep learning architect and to a product manager, cool projects he worked on, and our shared experiences at Amazon. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science.

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Highlights:

(0:00) Intro

(00:01:48) from SWE to deep learning architect to product manager

(00:12:44) day-to-day as a product manager at Chime

(00:19:46) how he collaborates with different data personas

(00:27:21) how to negotiate for more time for projects with leaders

(00:33:59) some timelines are negotiable

(00:38:00) most impactful project he worked on

(00:44:22) how to evaluate KPI, and not game the system

(00:48:02) think about development in the beginning

(00:50:29) data scientists need to educate the business and demystify the buzz words

(00:54:19) Amazon’s Think Big Challenge

(00:57:09) Never solve the problem twice

(01:00:25) How to transition to a product manager

(01:07:48) why he wanted to become a PM

(01:25:35) How can data scientist learn from PM