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 cofounder of Senpai, an audio platform for experts to share domain knowledge.  If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science.

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We talked about:

- Jim's career path in engineering and data science

- 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