Ask HN: How to get start with publishing research papers?

I work as an engineer in machine learning/big data field. Its not part of my day job but I wanted to get started with publishing research papers. A research portfolio will help me with job, learning, immigration and higher studies.

There is no one I can find to pair with. I am willing to do a lot of engineering work, data work but I have no experience when it comes to writing and publishing papers. A lot of papers from ICML and NIPS are beyond my understanding even though I can easily implement classification, regression, etc.

Is there a platform or community that could be of help?