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Podcast: Data Podcast for Nerds!
Episode: How to Turn Passion into Profession - Networking, Learning, and Leveraging Experiences | Alex Merced
Description: Learn all about how a Developer Advocate uses data to solve the world's problems, one programming language at a time.
If you think that you have too much of a random background to break into data, you gotta listen to Alex's origin story! He has done basically everything under the sun before officially getting his dream data job with Dremio.
Alex went from playing video games, practicing as a rockstar, owning a hobby store, learning just about every programming language out there, and everything in between.
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