- 16 Jan. 2023
“Today, I manage a Data team at a leading Tech company”
After a career in business school, Adriana boosted her career in Data thanks to the Data Science bootcamp, in only 9 weeks!

Accueil > Graduate stories > « Today, I manage a Data team at a leading Tech company »
After two years in her role, she wanted to deep dive into this aspect of her job in order to bring even more value to her clients. That’s when she decided to train in Data Science at Le Wagon Paris, to learn the skills necessary to complement her background in business.
Since graduating from Le Wagon, Adriana has mastered the whole Data stack and grasped the importance of AI. Today, she uses her new skills on a daily basis to manage her team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts. In only 9 weeks, she expanded her scope and acquired the skills to work more proficiently with her Data team.
Discover her journey!
The whole technical aspect of the role intrigued me, but seemed rather obscure and I really wanted to understand it better. After two years at IBM France, I realized that if I wanted to make a career in Data and evolve in the sector, I would have to develop technical skills to complement my business profile. I wanted to understand the technical side of AI, the “hidden face of the iceberg”.
As I didn’t want to leave IBM, I searched for an intense training program to learn as much as possible in a short period of time. Le Wagon was the perfect solution!
I came across a colleague of mine who was doing Le Wagon’s Data Science bootcamp and suggested I do it. Having had a similar business background, I said to myself that it was possible for me too. That’s precisely what I found at Le Wagon: a real demystification of technology!
This allows you to develop a 360° vision of the different professions and an excellent data culture.
As for the atmosphere, the class was very close-knit: a lot of teamwork and little competition. The idea is to help others when you’re ahead, and to be able to get help on days when you’re having more difficulty. The training is short and intense, but you see your progress every day and you build lifelong friendships and a network.
On paper, my job is the same, but in reality, everything has changed. My role is at the intersection of different professions, so my skills in Data Science give me the legitimacy to work with them and also facilitate exchanges between the technical and business sides. Training in Data Science has also broadened the scope of my client projects. I can now manage and intervene in my clients’ Data projects and bridge the gap between business and technical challenges.
Before my training, I was more “in” the team than leading the team. On my projects, I am always in tandem with a senior tech lead. Since I had less technical understanding, I let the teams lead the projects. Today, we have an equal relationship and we really complement each other. I participate much more in discussions with the technical teams and I can also propose ideas, challenge my teams and my clients.
For example, I have worked on several sectors (beauty, banking / insurance, telecom, luxury…) and on several types of solutions (IBM Watson, Google, Cloud Platform, Open Source algorithms…).
This industry is exciting, and relatively new, so there’s still a lot to learn and do. As Clive Robert Humby, the English mathematician and entrepreneur said “Data is the new oil”…