A machine learning engineer shares the résumé template that got him his first job and his senior role at Google

• Sahil Dua taught himself the basics of software engineering while at university.
• Dua shares the résumé that helped him land his first job, a software development role in Amsterdam.
• He also emphasizes the importance of gaining visibility both in-person and online.

Sahil Dua's journey into software and computer science began with a robotics competition.

In his first year of college in Delhi, where he studied electronics engineering, he started building some robots with friends. He soon realized he was more passionate about software than hardware, which led him to learn outside the classroom.