I moved to the US to pursue a career in academia before realizing it's a broken system. Here's how I pivoted to climate tech and found a job that made me happier than ever.

Dec 29 2022 by Business Insider

 
Ali Ahmadalipour, a principal data scientist at KatRisk.

Courtesy of Ali Ahmadalipour.

Ali Ahmadalipour works as a software engineer at the Google X moonshot factory.  He was on track to become an academic but pivoted to climate tech for a better work-life balance. Here's how new skills and an online brand helped him make the jump, as told to Aaron Mok.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ali Ahmadalipour about how he broke into climate tech. Ahmadalipour is a 33-year-old...

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