Ali Saleh is a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. In this episode, Ali shares his journey from studying and doing research, to working as a .NET developer, then moving into data engineering, machine learning, and finally site reliability engineering. He talks about the challenges he faced along the way and what he learned through each step. Listen to the full episode to learn from his experience! ----more---- 00:00 - Introduction 01:44 - What inspired his Tech Career 03:46 - Behind the Hype: The Reality of Computer Science 05:15 - From Student to Professional 07:43 - The challenges he has faced 10:04 - Getting into Machine Learning Research 11:15 - The Transition After the Revolution 12:37 - Balancing a Master’s in Germany with a Software Job 17:06 - His Interest in Research 20:25 - His Job at Zalando 23:40 - His Job at MOIA  27:58 - His Job at Delivery Hero 28:50 - His Job at Google 36:30 - Skills Needed to Be a Site Reliability Engineer 37:53 - Knowing what you want to Do? 39:23 - Advice ----more---- Podbean link: https://wiemzin.podbean.com/ ApplePodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/techtak/id1732103530?l=en-GB Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0zRbfj8S0AKa4EhwyAAvHD?si=906fe22f41904a07 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/o944lr7p iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/135681345 TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/TechTak-p3919993/ Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/techtakpod/ Twitter account : https://twitter.com/TechTakPodcast ------------------------------------- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/in-the-now License code: 792Y1SKLWOJBWWSP -----------------------------------------