👋 About me

Hi all, I’m Susan and I’m a technical lead of machine learning teams who helps others succeed in the ML field.

Currently, I’m a principal data scientist at Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the ELK stack. Previously, I was principal data scientist at a fintech unicorn. I’ve also led and shipped ML in telecommunications, social platforms, and more.

Machine Learning Interviews book (O’Reilly)

To share my knowledge in the machine learning field, I wrote a book, Machine Learning Interviews, published by O’Reilly, one of the largest tech book publishers. In the book, I aim to help folks join the competitive ML field. Get the book here.

About this blog

This blog was started in 2017, since I wanted to share productivity tips for how I manage my time and juggle many difficult initiatives successfully. Since then it’s expended to helping folks succeed in ML and design their careers.

Productivity

I worked full time while finishing up my master’s degree, and also worked on my video game studio. Now, I also speak at various conferences, including keynotes, around the world. At the same time, I am able to spend a lot of quality time with friends and family. This is thanks to years and years of refining my focus and productivity, and I often get questions about it.

Career design

As I grew in my career, I also started to write more about career design. I was promoted to principal/lead level quite early in my career, but it was not an accident. Read more to see how I design my career and ensure I reach my career goals.

In my spare time, I also write DS/ML specific guides on my Substack and co-organize the 3700+ member Toronto Women’s Data Group.

Hello!

• I’m a Principal data scientist @ ✨. Previously I’ve led and shipped ML in fintech, telecom, social media, and more.
• Indie game studio founder
• Write about career, dev, and productivity at susanshu.com
• Python Software Foundation contributing member (open source), 5x PyCon worldwide speaker
• Organize Toronto Women’s Data Group
• I hosted ML livestreams at ai.science, ~17k YouTube subscribers

📝 About this blog

I like to analyze what I do. I track my time and make spreadsheets. With these approaches I do much more with less time in my data science career, video game studio, and more.

I write about I learned, to help others accomplish what they feel they have too little time to do.

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