This is a bizarre comment. You have 15 years of software development experience and you are surprised this experience doesn't carry over to data science or ML d

This is a bizarre comment. You have 15 years of software development experience and you are surprised this experience doesn't carry over to data science or ML directly? Why should someone bring you in? Do you have a kaggle profile with your notebooks that people can look at? Have you replicated research papers ? Do you have any independent results that you can share, publish, or talk about?