How Álvaro Lemos got a Machine Learning Internship on a Data Science Team

Stories of how students and developers get started in applied machine learning are an inspiration. In this post, you will hear about Álvaro Lemos story and his transition from student to getting a machine learning internship. I'm from Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), but currently, I live in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (also in Brazil). I am studying Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and since the beginning of my undergraduation course, I've been involved with software development in some way. On my first week as a freshman, I joined a research group called LabCOM to help a colleague on his master's degree project.