ML Data

Developer Advocate, Content Creator and Advisor for individuals and companies who want to grow their brands in the tech space.

Developer Advocate and Founder

JetBrains

Data Science Product Specialist

LinkedIn

Design, write and film educational content for LinkedIn Learning's library of data science courses

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Deepnote

First Developer Relations hire.

➤ Generate awareness for Deepnote notebooks through technical talks and keynote speeches given at industry events, running meetups with local data communities, and creation of owned and distributed content
➤ Manage and empower Deepnote's developer communities by creating educational resources including documentation, video demos, sample notebooks, tutorials and blog posts, and by supporting users in online communities & forums
➤ Engage Deepnote's users by creating thought leadership and social media content to enable gathering of feedback from the community that informs Deepnote's product strategy

Data Advocate

Narrator

First data scientist hire.

Project experience:
➤ Analyze user behavior, product and acquisition funnel metrics to generate recommendations for customers in eCommerce, SaaS, CPG and communications sectors
➤ Implement, share best practices for, and interpret various customers' large scale A/B tests
➤ Manage and support client relationships in customer success role, enabling users to become fully self-sufficient in using the Narrator platform to derive analyses, reports and ongoing experiments

Data Scientist - Insights

Ankura

Provide data advisory, business intelligence/automated reporting and data science consulting services to clients in support of litigation in software, healthcare, labor and financial service industries. Tech stack: Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, SSIS, Excel

Project experience:
➤ Analyze over 10 terabytes of SaaS client’s data spread across 100+ databases to determine volume, identify patterns and locate exact database locations of customer PII and PHI leaked in national data breach
➤ Perform ETL and visualization of unstructured phone record data (on average 2m+ records received per month) to identify potential price-fixing calls between major meat-production companies in support of antitrust litigation
➤ Create and maintain firm's internal recruitment dashboards delivered to the People Office on a monthly basis that depict sources, placements and timing of Ankura's hiring efforts for 1000 employees and counting

Senior Associate - Analytics & Data Strategy

Gathered and analyzed financial transaction data to provide ad-hoc business valuations for multinational clients (ranging from $35m to $15b in total assets) in the SAAS, aerospace and defense, cannabis, retail and consumer products and private equity industries for goodwill impairment, purchase price allocation, business enterprise valuation, stock-based compensation and tax reporting purposes

Project experience:
➤ Identified business operation bottlenecks and generated store-level insights for a Fortune 500 client by delivering automated dashboards in Power BI that tracked KPIs, including revenue growth, contribution margins, occupancy costs, etc. for all of its 400+ stores worldwide
➤ Informed industry benchmarking reports and valued client companies relative to industry peers using Guideline Public Company and Guideline Transaction approaches by extracting and analyzing financial market data employing Capital IQ, Thomson Reuters and Oxford Economics databases

Strategy & Transactions Associate

CRC Companies

Led research efforts for underwriting new deals and valuing comparable properties in luxury and multifamily rental apartment markets in DC metro area, through in-person property tours as well as extraction and analysis of data from Costar database to assess historical and projected trends in property values, market conditions and current availabilities

Project experience:
➤ Developed operational business plan for the "Opportunity Incubator,” a community amenity space proposed in CRC’s redevelopment of a 300+ resident mixed income community in Alexandria, VA

Development Intern at CRC Companies

Wolf Group Capital Advisors

➤ Singlehandedly led quarterly processes of performance and billing reporting, then overhauled this process from print to entirely digital by integrating the Orion CRM reporting tool, which allowed firm to improve data integrity and investment performance for its 300+ investment portfolios
➤ Reconciled daily transaction and securities data in various portfolio management and CRM systems for $265 million+ in assets under management

Operations Associate

Data Scientist @ Narrator // Instructor @ LinkedIn Learning

I love data. I love writing. I love writing about data.

So I feel incredibly lucky to be a Developer Advocate in the data science space.

Anyone who's followed me for at least a bit of time knows that it's been a winding road to get here.

I've also been a Financial Analyst, Data Analyst and Data Scientist, and every step along the way has added onto the last to culminate in where I am today in DevRel.

But the single common thread between all of these steps? Putting myself out there on LinkedIn.

I first started writing on LinkedIn in 2022, and along the way--through a rediscovery of my childhood love for writing and also a stubborn commitment to the arbitrary goal of 100k followers--built a community that encourages me to show up as my authentic self everyday.

All the opportunities I've been lucky enough to receive I owe to this community.

I recently saw a job opening where I met 80% of the requirements. The self-rejection kicked in and I was about to exit out of the tab.

Until I got to the bottom, where the company included a “Please Apply” section that said something along the lines of:

“Apply even if you’re missing some of the requirements or don’t think you’re qualified.

Underrepresented groups in tech often shy away from roles where they aren’t a 100% match.

We want to build a diverse team and value well-rounded experiences.”

This world needs more companies that not only embrace diversity, but also acknowledge applicants’ impostor syndrome.

Because I would know firsthand, impostor syndrome kills more dreams than job applications ever will.

Megan Lieu

I don’t care who you are, what you do, whether I know you or not. If I see your new job announcement on my LinkedIn feed this year, I WILL congratulate the hell out of you.

Because I know firsthand how much of your blood, sweat and tears you must have put into getting there.

You probably have:

- Conducted dozens of informational coffee chats
- Sent out countless tailored resumes and apps
- Prepped for interviews for days on end
- Received hundreds of rejections

I’ve been there, done that. And I know how soul-crushing a job search can feel, especially when you feel like no one understands what you’re going through.

Here's how you're going to crush your job search in 2025:

✅ Job search in-person too. Attend conferences/meetups/hackathons
✅ Make a post to let the world know you’re on the market
✅ Prioritize human interactions over numbers
✅ Take a step back and talk to mentors
✅ Understand all it takes is one yes

♻️ Repost if you’re manifesting a new job this year!

The best manager I ever had was genuinely happy for me when I left the company.

She always started our 1:1s with “How have you been?”
She made sure I knew it if I was doing a good job.
She helped me set my goals with me, not for me.
She cared about my wellbeing before my output.

I didn’t realize how rare of a manager she was until I left.

And she doesn’t know how much of an impact her small acts of compassion had on me to this day.

Compassion is the difference between a manager and a leader.

Tag a compassionate m̶a̶n̶a̶g̶e̶r̶ 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 in your life and follow Megan Lieu for more posts like this!

Developer Advocate @ ML Data | Data Science Product @ JetBrains Datalore | Instructor @ LinkedIn Learning

My manager told me “We love you here, Megan.” A few days later he fired me.

I told him things were not working out here, so he hit me with the “We’re all family here and we’re here to support you” crap.

And when that still didn’t change my mind, he fired me and set me up with $0 in severance.

The day after I left, he told the whole company I was gone for performance reasons so that no one would believe I wanted to leave first.

Companies are only loyal to you when it’s convenient.

And when it’s no longer convenient, the love bombing and “family” talks can quickly turn into hostile legalese to save their own skin.

It took being lied to, discarded, slandered and threatened all by the same employer to realize this:

Your company is not your family.
Your boss is not your friend.
Your job is not your life.

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To all the people working between Christmas and New Year:

(And especially those working ON Christmas or New Year)

The service industry workers
The government workers
The essential workers
The retail workers

THANK YOU.

We often forget to appreciate the people who keep the world running while everyone else is enjoying the holidays.

If you know someone working during the holidays this year, make sure you reshare this for them! ♻️

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I walked into my termination meeting at my last job thinking I was getting a promotion.

I remember sitting in a cafe that Friday for the 4:30 pm call, which started off like any other weekly check-in with my manager. 

Until we were at 10 minutes left in the call.

“That’s why we’ve decided we’re parting ways with you, effective immediately after this call.”

Those words echoed in the silence as I was at a loss for words, a loss for any feeling at all.

Because my expectation that I was going to bring up my promotion during this call was so different from this reality.

When I could finally muster up the ability to speak, I blubbered out something like “Thank you for the opportunity to work with you guys.”

Even though what I really wanted to say was “Why? Why was I given no heads up at all?”

What I really wanted to do was to fight for myself, but what society tells us to do is to end things with dignity and not burn any bridges.

So that’s what I did. I stayed silent, until now.

I’ve stayed silent that I was actually so bitter and traumatized about how I was let go for many months afterward.

It wasn’t until recently that I’ve found closure by realizing it was precisely the difference between my own expectations vs reality that was the root of my pain:

I falsely thought I was doing a great job and my role was safe because I was 1 out of 6 people in the company, but the truth was the complete opposite.

For most people dealing with job loss during this recession, it is not your fault nor could you have done anything to prevent it.

But if there is one grave mistake you can prevent, it’s being foolish enough to believe in the myth of job security.

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It’s ok to choose yourself.

I was making the highest salary I’ve ever made in a role that was perfect for me and flew me around the world almost every month.

At the same time I was fighting a voice inside my head that was telling me my mental health was a ticking time bomb.

When it got so bad that the money didn’t even matter to me anymore, that’s when I knew I had to pick myself for what felt like the first time in my life.

And I’ve never looked back since 🥲

If it’s draining you more than it’s uplifting you, just let it go—I dare you.

The real you could end up happening to you.

“We decided to move forward with an internal hire.”

“We went forward with someone who has more experience in xyz super niche skill.”

“You were overqualified for the role.”

“The team had to pause hiring for the role due to budget constraints.”

“We’re unable to provide feedback due to confidentiality.”

Job seekers are tired of investing so much of their time, effort and hearts into an opportunity, only to receive one of these cop out rejections.

If something was actually wrong with the candidate’s application, please tell them so they can improve.

If a candidate spent their time interviewing with your company, the least you can do is pass along the rejection feedback.

The only thing worse than an interview rejection is an interview rejection with no feedback.

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It feels like there’s news of a different company forcing RTO and issuing ultimatums every week.

But there 𝘢𝘳𝘦 still companies out there that have embraced permanent remote work:

 1. Okta
 2. Twilio
 3. Zapier
 4. GitLab
 5. Square
 6. Spotify
 7. Instacart
 8. HubSpot
 9. Atlassian
10. Coinbase
    
Companies like these thrive remotely because they understand that their workers don’t need to be in the same location to produce their best work.

Did any of these companies on this list surprise you?

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Last year I left my corporate job and never looked back.

In every job I’ve held in my career, I’d always felt like an imposter.

But it wasn’t the type of imposter syndrome that made me feel like I was inadequate.

It was the type of imposter syndrome that made me feel like I was living two different lives between work and life.

Because I could never get behind the idea of building someone else’s dream.

So I kept switching jobs each year thinking that a new environment would drown out the thoughts of being but a cog in the machine.

Until I couldn’t do it anymore.

So here are my tips if you want to turn your passions into your career one day (so that you don’t end up paying for someone else’s Lambo!):

1. Assess your skills vs market demand

↳ Identify what you excel at and are passionate about vs there are gaps in the market.

2. Build your financial safety net

↳ Aim to save enough to cover your expenses for 3-6 months so that you have the freedom to explore opportunities without the immediate pressure of generating income.

3. Start small, test the waters

↳ Start your own projects while you’re still employed, e.g. volunteer, freelance work, so that you can gauge your interest and the viability of your business idea without fully committing right away.

4. Leverage social media

↳ Creating valuable content like tutorials, tips, or industry insights on platforms like LinkedIn will allow you to position yourself as an authority in your field.

2025 is the year we start building toward our own dreams.

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2025 could mark the end of remote work, and it’s really frightening.

We’ve seen the rise and fall of WFH jobs over the past 5 years and it’s been disheartening to watch employees being treated as pawns in the corporate chess game.

I’ve been a remote worker for almost my entire career, and I’ve seen firsthand the benefits of trusting your employees to work where they work best:

More diverse hiring
Increased productivity
Better employee retention
Improved work-life balance
Innovation of workplace tools

One tool I’ve used every day as a remote worker is Notion, my favorite all-in-one productivity tool (does Notion really need an introduction?).

But in the remote world, it’s even harder to show up, express your true self, and stand out at work.

Notion just launched Notion Faces, their portrait generator feature that helps you express yourself creatively through your own custom portrait illustration.

Check out my adorable new LinkedIn profile picture as an example!

Get started on @Notion for free and create your own custom portrait using the link in my comments 👇

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#Notionfaces #Notionpartner

Every single job title I've held in the past 5 years:

I’ve now been a:

Financial Analyst
Analytics Consultant
Data Scientist
Developer Advocate
Business Owner

To most people, this looks like lack of career progression.

At each step I truly thought I had found a field where I could settle down and "rise in the ranks."

When I was a Financial Analyst I thought my next step was Senior Financial Analyst. When I was a Data Scientist I thought my next step was Senior Data Scientist.

But here’s what happened instead.

At every single step, unexpected opportunities came to me, and I just took them.

Some might call it impatience, impulsiveness or lack of commitment even. But I saw each pivot as taking a chance on myself in new adventures.

Of course, there were doubts before each leap I took.

“What if the new job isn’t as good as this one?”
”What if I’m making a huge mistake?”
”What if I regret this big time?”

Some of the roles didn’t end as expected, but do I regret any step in this chaotic story I’ve called my career? Absolutely not, because each opportunity I took led to new ones.

Life is too short and the world is filled with way too many possibilities to never find out what lies outside of a picture-perfect, linear “career path.”

♻️ Repost for a proud pivoter in your life!

In August of 2023 I was laid off from a job I loved. Here’s what happened after:

I quickly landed a job that paid me a 50% higher salary that I ended up hating and quitting 6 months later.

I started my own LLC as a full time tech content creator and have almost doubled my last corporate income since. How?

1. Invested in myself

Instead of depending solely on my employer to put food on my table, I started depending on myself. This means I invested in skills that could make me money outside of my job, e.g. social media, AI, content creation

2. Invested in my professional personal brand

You can have all the skills in the world, but if no one knows they exist they’re useless. I built my personal brand on LinkedIn and Instagram, and it allowed opportunities to find ME instead of the other way around

3. Invested in relationships

I went out of my way to meet peers and mentors who can elevate me. I was pushed and learned so much from them about how to grow my skills and my business thanks to these new people in my life

4. Invested in my hobbies

If I had thought of social media as “just a hobby” I would have never made a six-figure income from it within my first year. Have passions outside of work, take them seriously, and dream big

I hope that 2025 is the year you make all of these investments for yourself. 

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If you think your company would never do layoffs right before Christmas

Or that they would never lay off “top performers”

Or that they would never lay off veterans who have been there for decades

Or that they would never lay off people who desperately need the job to put food on the table

Congrats, you’ve been sold the lie of ✨job security✨

I’ll say this until I’m blue in the face: self security > job security.

And how do you build up your self security?

1. Invest in your learning
2. Invest in your network
3. Invest in your passions

Cheers to our self security in 2025 and happy holidays! 🥂 

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I’ve failed so many times in my career I’ve lost count. 

If I hadn’t been burnt out from my first job
↳ I would have never pivoted to a field I love.

If I hadn’t prematurely quit my second job
↳ I would have never found a job I loved.

If I hadn’t been laid off from that third job
↳ I would have never learned so much about myself.

If I hadn’t been fired from that fourth job
↳ I would have never decided to go all in on myself.

Because every single failure has laid the groundwork for a breakthrough.

I’m so glad my career has been anything but linear.

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I was the only woman in my company.

And when I tried to speak my truth, my CEO told me it wasn’t true.

“We have women investors and advisors at this company.” So I took down the posts at his request and stayed quiet about it for several months after I left.

Until now.

Because I’ve realized not sharing my truth with the world would be doing a disservice to the many other women out there who are in similar situations:

The women who work in places where no one looks or thinks like them

The women who are gaslit into believing a twisted truth

The women who feel alone and can’t speak up

It’s 2025 and workplace sexism is still alive and well. Having one token woman in the team/company doesn’t cut it anymore. 

Ladies: please never stop sharing your truth.

Invest in yourself, or no one else will.

This week I’m at CES, probably THE biggest tech conference in the world.

And I did not think twice about paying out of pocket to attend. Why?

Because conferences are how I keep my knowledge of the tech industry sharp, especially as a solopreneuer.

Nothing beats the feeling of being around the latest innovations and learning from so many likeminded professionals.

So go to that conference you’ve been eyeing. I promise it will be one of the best investments you can make in yourself.

P.S. Who else is at CES this week??

Back in September I was invited to NVIDIA’s AI Summit, and I was shocked to learn this:

You don’t have to have “AI” in your title to work in the field.

I met AI practitioners with backgrounds in law, public policy, life sciences, agriculture backgrounds, you name it.

Even though it seems like AI is already everywhere, the truth is we’re barely scratching the surface, and the AI Summit opened my eyes to this.

AI will impact every single domain one day, and right NOW is the best time to find your seat at the table.

So here’s how you’re going to do it:

💡 Leverage your strengths and passions while actively upskilling in-demand skills in AI like deep learning, data science, and accelerated computing.

And there’s no better way to learn these topics than from NVIDIA themselves!

NVIDIA’s specialized training and certification programs are dedicated to teaching these skills directly from the industry leader.

Here’s how I would use their resources:

1. Take self-paced courses
2. Learn from instructor-led workshops
3. Get NVIDIA-certified to prove your skillset

I’m giving away 10% off all self paced courses, instructor led workshops, and certifications, plus a giveaway for one free self-paced course 🙌

Get all the links and info on how to enter in my comments! 👇

Things I hated doing at the beginning of 2024:

- Reading daily
- Networking with strangers
- Being forced to wake up before 10 am
- Staying organized with planners & checklists

Things I hate doing at the beginning of 2025:

- Reading daily
- Networking with strangers
- Being forced to wake up before 10 am
- Staying organized with planners & checklists

Could I be a lot more productive if I did these things every day? Probably.

But do I feel guilty anymore for still not doing them? Nope.

In 2025, don’t let social media or any self-help book tell you you can’t be successful just because you’re not a self-disciplined superhuman 24/7.

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2024 was the best present I could have received.

Thank you to everyone who’s played a part in my life this year.

Merry Christmas from my little family to yours, LinkedIn fam 🫶

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