Transition from Mechanical Engineer to Machine Learning Engineer (or Data Scientist)

I have a Mechanical Engineering (ME) background as all of my degrees are in ME. After my Bachelor, I was doing my higher education in the field of Robotics when the Data revolution took shape. People were more familiar with the word "Big Data" at the time rather than Data Science. Then, I got hooked up with Machine Learning and started steering my career path towards Data Science since. I had a bit of good start with a Robotics background, especially in programming, so I didn't have to start from scratch.