One common type of project I find myself doing is moving calculations from Excel to Python. The reason why it’s nearly always good to “productionalize” Excel files as code, is the incredibly high cost of getting things wrong in manufacturing....

If you’ve spent any time on the internet lately, you would have heard about [OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model]. If you haven’t done so yet, you can try it out yourself here.

Companies in manufacturing or any other other sector, that were early adopters of machine learning and AI, usually started their digital transformation journey by hiring a team of data scientists. To their disappointment, projects took a lot longer than expected....

I remember how, on my first job in an aluminum plant, I once ran a SQL query against the legacy production database. About ten minutes later, my colleague receives a phone call from the oversees complaining that the process control...

Your specialization is what you do: data engineering, cutting hair or cooking steaks. Your niche is who you do it for: aluminum process engineers, investment bankers on Wall Street or cardiologists in France. A niche can also be thought of...

In the current job market there are more open positions than data engineers. In the competition for this scarce talent, metallurgical companies are at a disadvantage because they are not readily associated with digital innovation. Nevertheless, the massive amount of...

I’m happy to announce that I will be joining the digital team at Novelis as a data engineer for the European region. I feel this step aligns well with my objectives outlined in my previous post: being patient and taking...