I've been at Amazon, Apple, Google, F5, and a NYC startup where I was employee #13, doing the same thing in different contexts: walking into ambiguity, building what doesn't exist, and making the results visible to the people who matter. Somewhere in the middle I stepped away for an MBA from Chicago Booth
Right now that looks like building production ML models solo. Forecasting and NLP classification, with AI as the build team, both adopted as the standard across multiple teams. I work best when the problem isn't fully defined yet.