How do a data scientist should expand into MlOps / Data Engineering?

I have been working in data science in the retail industry for almost 3 years, the first 1.25 years as a data science intern & later 1.25 years as a data scientist. Till now, I have mostly worked on projects from POC to market test / backtest. I have not had a chance to push the model into production. But with the advent of AI automation, I do not wish to just stick to being a notebook data scientist & …

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