We talked about;

Antonis' background
The pros and cons of working for a startup
Useful skills for working at a startup and the Lean way to work
How Antonis joined the DataTalks.Club community
Suggestions for students joining the MLOps course
Antonis contributing to Evidently AI
How Antonis started freelancing
Getting your first clients on Upwork
Pricing your work as a freelancer
The process after getting approved by a client
Wearing many hats as a freelancer and while working at a startup
Other suggestions for getting clients as a freelancer
Antonis' thoughts on the Data Engineering course
Antonis' resource recommendations

Links:

Lean Startup by Eric Ries: https://theleanstartup.com/
Lean Analytics: https://leananalyticsbook.com/
Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-machine-learning/9781098107956/
Kafka Streaming with python by Khris Jenkins tutorial video: https://youtu.be/jItIQ-UvFI4

Free MLOps course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

Lessons Learned from Freelancing and Working in a Start-up - Antonis Stellas