[My original post from linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/things-job-title-zan-kai-chong/%5D
Switching from the job title data scientist to machine learning engineer amuses a lot of my friends. They wondering since when I become a lecturer again (note : machine “learning”). Despite my wrongful explanation, I start thinking what is my real job title other than those words printed on my name cards.
Analytically, I should list down all my job functions. Then build the heat map or histogram from all the words in the description and then identify the common words by applying the max(count) or corr function. Okay, sounds right. Here we go.
First, I work on AWS platform. As a trustworthy power user, I stress-test the costly computing instance and provide my helpful IT support to new comers (lady is preferable). I also use EMR (very expensive computer clusters) like-a-boss occasionally for big data stuff. Occasionally, I speak AWS jargon as if I am real AWS engineer.
Okay. You saw the word “big data”. Of cause , I am (acting like) a big data engineer as I work on peta-ful (new word to describe peta bytes) data. These petaful data are our asset to track you. We may not be as good as Cambridge Analytica. But we know many things about you and what you did last weekend. The more you attach to your phone, the more we know you.
In short , it is fun to work in analytics company. Well, my real job title? I am wondering as well . Perhaps , I should just call myself “engineer“.
I was in a great self-involved until my civil engineer friends start mocking me with a photo.
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