My background is in physics and I have research experience in High Energy Physics and Nanotechnology. I switched gears and became passionate about computer science. I taught myself programming, started using Linux, and took a couple online courses in Scientific Computing. I got a job as a software developer, and then wanted to do something more math heavy. Data science seemed like a natural confluence so I enrolled at NYC Data Science Academy. There I pursued multiple projects, such as an analysis on the price movement of bitcoin using financial signal processing and NLP.