Props to the author--landing your first deep learning position is very difficult. There are many many engineers who want to do deep learning but don't know how

Props to the author--landing your first deep learning position is very difficult. There are many many engineers who want to do deep learning but don't know how, and a few employers that badly need deep learning experts. The employers are (understandably) skittish about taking a chance on hiring someone without expertise and assuming they can train up. If you can show up with proof that you can train performant models, then you'll have a much easier time. Certainly the author put in his time to build up this proof. By-the-by, if you want to work on autonomous vehicles and aren't too attached to being neck deep in the deep learning parts, nearly all autonomous vehicles companies need an army of engineers for data handling, and on-vehicle performance. (Vladimir, if you're reading this, I'd be curious to hear what your $$$ investment was for your kaggle competitions).