Career Path Experience Stories

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Panelists trace concrete pivots: one built an ERP from scratch to process paper sales reports for a record label and taught themself programming; another ships ML models and notebooks after learning on Coursera and Jupyter, landing roles at Apple and IBM; volunteers organize EuroPython for ~1,200 attendees and start podcasts that lead to freelance work; an open-source package hits ~12,000 downloads, proving portfolio projects and community contributions convert into jobs, promotions, and solutions-architect roles.

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1. 0:00Career journey sharing
2. 1:10Honest career stories matter
3. 2:35Alexander’s music to AI path
4. 13:12Side projects shape careers
5. 21:09Daria’s mom to data scientist
6. 30:42Jonathan’s dropout to student
7. 46:54Anastasia’s physics to tech
8. 56:27Sohan’s unexpected path from iOS development to developer relations
9. 1:04:55Chuck’s physics to advocacy
10. 1:10:20Azamat’s AI/data transitions
11. 1:22:15Camila’s art to engineering
12. 1:31:13Rafael’s astronomy & community
13. 1:38:01Laura’s tech lessons learned
14. 1:47:36Closing remarks

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