Careers

Great reads on modeling, processes, and leadership — At the very start of my journey in data, I thought I was going to be a data scientist, and my first foray into data was centered on studying statistics and linear algebra, not software engineering or database management. Fairly early in my career…

Get to know Product Operations Manager, Shaleya Solomon. What’s your name? Shaleya Solomon What are your preferred pronouns? she/her Tell us about your background! I am a second-generation immigrant — both my parents moved from Trinidad & Tobago to the US in the 80s, and they met here. I’m born-and-raised NYC-adjacent…

“A beginning is a very delicate time…”- Princess Irulan “For everything, there is a first time”- Captain Spock “Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories”- Steven Wright I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. Never had a fascination, an…

Exploring the Unconventional Career Path of Alexandra ‘Lex’ Marcano and the Emergence of NFTs in the Web3 Era. The average person spends close to 100,000 hours working over their lifetime, a staggering amount of time to devote to a singular pursuit. It’s no wonder that as young children, we’re often asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” In their teenage years, those same children…

My mom has always said that I learn everything the hard way. By this, I think she means that I was the type of kid who couldn’t learn from others’ experiences. I had to see and do everything myself — regardless of the pain I might endure as a result. …

Personal or professional, unstructured time with others is vital to our relationships — in any medium I listen to a lot of podcasts, and one recently caught my ear. This episode of The Big Story featured Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power Of Killing Time who believes…

By Jan Peterson, for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Pacific Region Few kids get a sense of where they’re heading in life by age 10. But in May 2000, Charlie Sandford experienced a natural disaster that greatly informed the life path he would follow. What started as a controlled…