Have around 20 years of experience, including a Master's in Computer Science and Machine Learning. My (unfinished due to medical issues. went mostly all but dissertation) PhD work was in Machine Learning and Computational Creativity. Used to be principal machine learning researcher/scientist. Currently a senior SRE.
My past and current professional and research career is in both theoretical and practical AI/ML along with various fields of computer science, systems engineering, and site reliability engineering/devops.