Monica Kay Royal

nerdnourishment

As a Data Career Strategist, I help professionals change careers and become a data analyst by leveraging their current skill sets.

My Data Career Strategy Program offers:
Personalized career roadmaps: Tailored guidance based on your background, skills, and goals.
Curated learning resources: Hand-picked content to focus your efforts and avoid information overload.
Practical project experience: Build a portfolio of real-world projects to demonstrate your skills.
Networking strategies: Learn how to effectively connect with others in the field.
Interviewing strategies: Learn how to showcase your value to potential employers to land a data job.

Check it out here ➡️ https://nerdnourishment.com/

Data Career Strategist

Podcast Host

As an Audit Analytics Consultant, I help internal audit departments build a data-driven audit approach which leverages the use of data analytics to make their audit procedures more effective.

Founder (Chief Data Enthusiast) | Audit Analytics Consultant

LinkedIn

Teaching data professionals how you can protect the data you work with on a daily basis for your data analytics and machine learning projects.

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Instructor, Data Analytics & FinTech Bootcamps

Northwestern Mutual

Lead Product Manager - Behavior & Risk Analytics, Cybersecurity

American Express

Product Manager - Data Analytics & Innovation, Internal Audit

Arizona Public Service - APS

Business Data Analyst

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation

Data Analyst / Senior Information Security Auditor

Information Security Auditor II

CliftonLarsonAllen

Senior Information Technology Auditor

Clifton Gunderson LLP

Information Technology Auditor

IT Audit Intern

Helping professionals break into data without breaking anything | Instructor at edX | Host of Data Podcast for Nerds! 🤓

I am on a mission to bring the data community together and share/learn/grow 🌱 I provide mentoring services for folks trying to break into data and am the host of the Data Podcast for Nerds!  

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If you are interested in deep diving into my personal bio...

I like to think that much like Liam Neeson, I have a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.  Just over 13 years (ok, maybe not that long..)

My formal education is in Accounting and Management Information Systems. This allowed me to enter the world in as an Information Technology Auditor. During this time, I made sure to participate in all the varieties of projects available to me. Information Security, Logical/Physical Security, Cybersecurity, Application Controls, Change Management, Social Engineering, Vulnerability scans and Pen testing, Data Privacy, Financial Analysis.

Once I was introduced to Data and Analytics, I was hooked and on the move. I progressed to areas where I was able to be more involved with data, specifically data governance, data management, data literacy, and data visualizations. I advanced into enterprise analytics where I was exposed to programming and data science. I even briefly served as a system administrator, which was probably my most unique experience. Well, besides my first job in Food Management.

I eventually moved back into cybersecurity where I could focus on my passion for data overlapped with security, risk, and compliance; specifically related to behavioral analytics by obtaining formal training in Behavior Design.

Circle back to my current state and mission of helping others, I am now working for myself at nerdnourishment and teaching with edX 🤓


Tools Used to Assist in my Journey
- R
- SQL
- Python
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- Knowledge of awesome nerd related topics

Founder & Chief Data Enthusiast

Stanford University

Hands on education about AI Agents (TECH 2025)

Guest Lecturer

OSS4AI

150k+ Online Community

13k+ Newsletter Subscribers

17k+ Event Calendar Subscribers

Seven figure business

Chief Executive Officer

Banyan

Venture Partner

Teaching 1000s of developers how to build AI applications

Advanced RAG: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/hands-on-ai-introduction-to-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag

Intro RAG: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-rag-applications-with-vector-databases/rag-with-vector-databases-advanced-strategies-for-ai-optimization

AICamp

Helping organize educational talks and networking events for the AI Community

Community Manager

PythonAlgos

Blogger

Zilliz

Senior Developer Advocate

Hiring new DevRel, managing the DevRel strategy, and leading the team. Developing and writing tutorials for proof of concepts for large language model applications such as: multi-document querying, conversation chaining, and more. Giving talks about vector databases, LLM Apps, semantic search, and tangential spaces.

Developer Advocate

MLOps Community

Grew MLOps Seattle's Community from 150 to 700+ (unfortunately) without help from the organization at large, which is why I left.

The Text API

Founder

Deepgram

Helped strategize ML Engineer Growth Strategy
Helped turn Python into one of the fastest growing segments of the user base
Wrote tutorials on PyTorch, BERT, and Deepgram

Technical Evangelist Consultant

Yujian Tang started developing software professionally at the age of 16. In college, he studied computer science, neuroscience, and statistics and published machine learning papers to conferences like IEEE Big Data. After graduation, he worked on the AutoML system at Amazon before moving on to build his own companies including a data aggregation app, an NLP API, and his current company - OSS4AI, an organization aimed at providing all developers access to the resources to understand, use, and contribute to the direction and development of AI.

Yujian Tang

Big thanks to everyone who made the SVAI Demo Day #2 a huge success last night

Special thanks to Snowflake Macroscope and Autonomy for making the event possible 

Congrats to our demo day winner - Flexprice ! Among 8 demos, our industry expert judges Victor Barros Anrui (Allie) Gu Anubhav Sharma and Devang Gaur all voted favorably for your project

Hope to see you all again soon - maybe at Seattle Startup Summit ;) or even earlier

Guest Lecturer @ Stanford University | CEO @ OSS4AI

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