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June 16, 2025 41 mins
Ali Saleh is a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.

In this episode, Ali shares his journey from studying and doing research, to working as a .NET developer, then moving into data engineering, machine learning, and finally site reliability engineering. He talks about the challenges he faced along the way and what he learned through each step.

Listen to the full episode to learn from his experience!

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00:00 - Introduction

01:44 - What inspired his Tech Career

03:46 - Behind the Hype: The Reality of Computer Science

05:15 - From Student to Professional

07:43 - The challenges he has faced

10:04 - Getting into Machine Learning Research

11:15 - The Transition After the Revolution

12:37 - Balancing a Master’s in Germany with a Software Job

17:06 - His Interest in Research

20:25 - His Job at Zalando

23:40 - His Job at MOIA 

27:58 - His Job at Delivery Hero

28:50 - His Job at Google

36:30 - Skills Needed to Be a Site Reliability Engineer

37:53 - Knowing what you want to Do?

39:23 - Advice

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