Whaddup people. If you have watched my videos on my channel, you may know that I'm Sashlin. If you haven't watched any of my videos, then shame on you, and welcome 😁, my name is Sashlin Reddy. I always enjoy telling people about myself, because I'm just that interesting 👀. So let's get into it.
So why Peel the onions. Why the name? Why did I create the Youtube Channel/this website? So many questions that you guys have for me, or at least the questions that my 3 friends have for me... Over the past few years I've had a crack at trying to educate others, mainly in the working environment. Turns out it also helps me learn and I've found out that education is one of my passions. So this lead me to deciding to attempt to share whatever knowledge I've accumulated in a light-hearted way regarding data analytics and data science. And thus, Peel the onions was born.
You might be thinking that Peel the onions is a super weird name. Hell yeah it is, but then again I'm a bit of a weird one myself. But that's another discussion for another day. So the name came about after thinking about how I would deliver the content. One course in particular inspired me to try and teach with more of a top-down approach as opposed to bottom-up. The best example to explain a top-down approach, is how sport is taught, such as soccer/football. When kids are taught soccer, they are taught just to kick the ball and run after it. Then slowly, over time, the rules are explained. This whole process is like peeling back an onion layer by layer, and strangely enough, this was the first thing I thought of when thinking of this approach. Also, I LOVE ONIONS in my food 😁.
But who is Sashlin, and why should you watch my videos or read this nonsense? That's a great question. I'm just a regular dude trying to share knowledge, because knowledge should be as accessible as possible. I could rattle off my credentials, but that's what LinkedIn is for, and also, I just have way too many credentials to list all here. Joooking 😂 I was previously a software developer, but I was intrigued by machine learning after bumping into it 5 years ago. Yes, I literally came across machine learning by accident, and now it's one of my passions. Anywho, after having two software developer jobs, I became a quantitative analyst at a bank. Somewhere I never thought I'd be. It's been challenging trying to implement data science in such a large corporation, but it's these type of challenges that got me to learn more, and try help others. And so it began, a couple years ago, in an attempt to upskill other quants about data science, I began hosting knowledge shares at work. And since then, I have not looked back and we now have Peel the onions 😎.