India, Sept. 8 -- An India-based Amazon machine learning engineer, Suvendu Mohanty, shared his career journey in an interview with Business Insider. He recalled, "I got my Master's in Computer Science in 2011, and like others, I got tracked into coding as a software engineer. I started my career as a Java engineer developing software applications. Six or seven years later, I came across the profile of machine learning."

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At the time, machine learning was far from the booming sector it has now become. "The projects we got were almost always software engineering; machine learning projects were really, really hard to get," h...