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I'm Mary-Jane, and I joined Kainos in 2017. I recently changed the course of my career by completing the Big Data Academy at Kainos and wanted to share my experience with anyone who might be considering applying next time.
Why Data Engineering?
I'm not one to shy away from my weaknesses, but rather seek to improve them in whatever way I can.
A couple years ago I didn't think I'd ever have the technical skills or logical problem-solving ability to become a data engineer, that's something really smart people who are maths geniuses do, right? But I decided that 2019 was the year I would conquer my fear of data, and all the functional, mathematical thinking that goes with it.
I had tinkered with some machine learning tools in 2018 during my time in the Kainos Applied Innovationteam but one thing that I kept stumbling upon was the challenge of data. There was either not enough of it, or too much of it and it wasn't being managed well.
Identifying this problem left me keen to work towards solving it.
When I heard about the Kainos Big Data Academy, I had to apply and luckily for me, I was successful!