In this podcast host Marco talks to young professionals to hear about their stories on how they got into their field, how they studied it, and what they do now in their work. The goal of this podcast is to provide career insights, motivation, and study tips for students who are still deciding on what course to take in college or what career to take after college. Catch new episodes every Friday!
Ep.24: How to be an A.I. Engineer, and what it's like working for startup companies | Interview with Joseph Daniel Dantes
About the guest: Joseph Daniel Dantes is currently working for Blaize, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology company, where he is mostly in charge of developing software tools that are used in communicating with their AI accelerator hardware. Before this, he also worked for another AI technology company called Wave Computing. He is a Computer Engineering graduate from UP Diliman, and he was a member of the Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory in their institute.
In this episode we talked about:
What inspired him to pursue a career in AI engineering
His experience during their bootcamp training at Wave Computing
What he loves about working for a startup company
His role at Blaize, and some of the projects he has worked on so far
What edge computing is, and what it was like before edge computing
The day-to-day activities of an AI engineer, and the typical timeline of AI projects
What are the challenging and rewarding aspects of working as an AI engineer
What is AI, and how it's different from other related topics (machine learning, data science, etc)
How neural networks work, a simple example
The latest in AI technology, and why the development of AI is deemed to be the fourth industrial revolution
What makes a successful AI engineer
Follow JD Dantes on social media for more AI-related blog posts:
Writings on https://jddantes.substack.com
Medium https://medium.com/@jddantes
Twitter https://twitter.com/jddantes
If you wish to learn more about neural networks, here are some useful lecture notes:
https://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/
https://cs231n.github.io/understanding-cnn/
18 Sept 2021
Ep.23: How to be a Network Operations Engineer, and how customer tech support is done | Interview with Erwin San Pedro
About the guest: Erwin San Pedro is currently working as a Network Operations Engineer for NetOne Systems Japan, where he is tasked to help their customers resolve network issues, find downtime threats, and report outdated systems. Before this, he had three years of experience as an Electrical Project engineer for Hexel Works Japan. He has a bachelor's degree in ECE from UP Diliman, and he was a member of UP EEEI's Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory.
In this episode we talked about:
What urged him to make a career shift from electrical project engineering to network operations engineering
His first months of training at NetOne Systems Japan, and his role for the Operations team
The Plan-Build-Operate-Optimize (PBOO) framework, and different roles in each department
The day to day activities of a network operations engineer
The types of customers they have, and the kinds of concerns that they deal with
His process for researching, resolving, and recording the network issues
The many different parts connected in a network systems
The challenging and rewarding aspects of the work of a network operations engineer
The next steps in the career of a network engineer
Why Security Engineering is a highly specialized skill
How his past experiences in Hexel, UCL, and UP has helped him so far in his new career
10 Sept 2021
Ep.22: How to be an FPGA Engineer, and how FPGA enables 5G's high-speed communications | Interview with Carlos Luigi Ramos
About the guest: Carlos Luigi Ramos is an FPGA Engineer for Anritsu Japan. He has 4 years of experience in developing digital circuit modules for the signal modulation/demodulation and MIMO applications for 5G Testers. He has a bachelor's degree in ECE from UP Diliman, and he was a part of the Digital Signals Processing Laboratory.
In this episode we talked about:
How he ended up working for an FPGA team, and the kind of training he got in the beginning
The languages used in FPGA coding, and how its parallel processing is different from other codes
The projects he got involved in, and the work he has done for the Demodulation and Modulation groups of Anritsu's 5G Tester
What are detailed in the 3GPP specifications
The process of FPGA development: design (spec review, circuit design, timing charts), coding (circuit, input data, output data), simulation (in PC), verification, hardware deployment, and testing
The challenging and rewarding aspects of the work of an FPGA engineer
The next steps in the career of an FPGA engineer, how to become an expert FPGA engineer, and the two types of an FPGA engineer
What is an FPGA, the applications you can build with it, and the devices that need it
FPGA vs ASIC, and how FPGA allows reprogrammability of the digital circuits
The FPGA architecture, and the best practices in designing FPGA applications
The most useful skills and character traits for an FPGA engineer
The future of FPGA, and why the demand for FPGAs will only grow in the future
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