Behind the ML Engineer work: Building an Audience While Working Full Time
Why I started this
There was a gap that was driving me crazy.
On one side: “here’s how linear regression works” tutorials written for people who’ve never touched a dataset. On the other side: academic papers improving some random benchmark by 0.000001% with zero context on why anyone should care.
Nothing in between. Nothing for the person who’s already working in ML and wants to actually understand how production systems are built and why certain decisions get made.
So I just started writing about what I was learning in my free time.
No grand plan. No monetization strategy. Just filling a gap that I personally felt.
11k newsletter subscribers and 40k LinkedIn followers later… I’m still doing exactly that.
And I’m genuinely grateful for every single person who reads this! Thank you <3
How I actually find the time
I’m not grinding content every evening. That’s not sustainable and it’s not how I operate.
Here’s the actual system:
