- Published on May 15, 2019
- In AI Features
Behind The Code: How Shrirang Deshpande Took A Career U-Turn To Follow His Biggest Passion — Data Science
- By Akshaya Asokan
This month we are starting a developer series called Behind The Code, wherein we tap into the developer community in India and find out how these professionals, who are the backbone of our IT landscape began their journey and how they at the forefront of major innovations.
In our first column, we speak to Shrirang Deshpande, a Mechanical Engineer by qualification, whose career took a turn in his mid-20s after he developed an interest in automation and AI/ML. This interest led him to co-found an analytics startup, where he worked as a Business Analyst for two years before he moved to head the Data Science team for an online learning platform.
For Deshpande, even though he was moving in the right direction in his career path, the initial transition wasn't really easy.
“That was the mos
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Akshaya Asokan
Akshaya Asokan works as a Technology Journalist at Analytics India Magazine. She has previously worked with IDG Media and The New Indian Express. When not writing, she can be seen either reading or staring at a flower.
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