Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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We talked about Jim's career path in engineering and data science, and
- What makes a great data scientist
- What's the future of data scientists
- What's a 'human cloud'
- How to network like a champion
- Best way to work with mentors
- Career advice to his younger self
- Life lessons he learned from playing chess

Jim Zheng is an engineering manager at Flexport, building the data platform; he was a data scientist at Salesforce, worked at Yahoo as a UX designer, and was a researcher in computer science at Stanford. He is also the CTO of Senpai, an audio platform for experts to share domain knowledge.
Ask Jim a question on Senpai: https://beta.senpai.so/ataki12

Jim's article on how to send cold emails: linkedin.com/pulse/hiring-managers-pro-tip-how-send-cold-emails-get-responses-jim-zheng

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