🔥 Overview: Key Learning Tracks
1. ML Math Mastery: Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability, Statistics,
Optimization
2. Advanced Python & Software Engineering for ML
3. Deep Understanding of ML Algorithms & Theory
4. Deep Learning with PyTorch: CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, Custom
Models
5. ML Systems & MLOps: Pipelines, Deployment, CI/CD, Monitoring
6. Production Projects: Vision, NLP, Time Series, Tabular
7. Portfolio & GitHub Excellence: Reproducibility, Docs, Demos
8. Open Source / Research Involvement
9. DSA, ML Interviews, and System Design Prep
10. Professional Branding, Networking, Job Search Strategy
📆 12-Month Weekly Plan (Condensed)
Each week:
🧠 Learning Modules | 📁 Portfolio or Real-World Task | 💼 Interview Prep | 🚀
Deliverables
Month 1-2: Foundations Deep Dive & ML Engineering Practices
Goals: Solidify math + Python, best practices, OOP, testing, Git workflows
Week 1-4: Core Math + Software Engineering for ML
🧠 Math: Linear algebra (vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, SVD), calculus
(gradients, Jacobians)
📁 Build: A CLI tool for data preprocessing using modular OOP
💼 LeetCode: Arrays, strings, 2 pointers
🚀 Deliverable: GitHub repo with test coverage & CI via GitHub Actions
Resources:
Math: “Mathematics for Machine Learning” (Deisenroth), 3Blue1Brown
videos
Eng: "Effective Python", “Clean Code”, Real Python tutorials
Week 5-8: ML Algorithms, sklearn mastery, pandas/numpy profiling
🧠 ML: Bias-variance, regularization, SVMs, trees, kNN, ensemble
methods
📁 Build: Re-implement models from scratch (e.g., logistic regression
with gradient descent)
💼 LeetCode: Hash tables, sorting
🚀 Deliverable: Blog: “Implementing ML Algorithms from Scratch”
Month 3-4: Deep Learning + Intermediate Projects
Goals: Deepen PyTorch, explore CNNs/RNNs, build your first portfolio models
Week 9-12: PyTorch & DL Fundamentals
🧠 DL: Autograd, custom modules, loss functions, optimization tricks
📁 Build: MNIST classifier, CIFAR-10 CNN with augmentation, transfer
learning on ResNet
💼 LeetCode: Sliding window, stacks/queues
🚀 Deliverable: GitHub repo + report: “Custom CNN vs Transfer
Learning”
Resources:
DL: “Deep Learning with PyTorch” (Paszke), Coursera “DeepLearning
Specialization”
Tooling: TensorBoard, Weights & Biases intro
Week 13-16: NLP & RNNs + Project
🧠 Concepts: Embeddings, RNNs, GRU/LSTM, attention, tokenization
📁 Build: Sentiment classifier on IMDb using RNNs & Hugging Face
💼 LeetCode: Trees, recursion
🚀 Deliverable: Deployed NLP app with FastAPI + Streamlit
Month 5-6: Full ML Pipelines & MLOps Kickoff
Goals: End-to-end system building, experiment tracking, Docker, FastAPI,
intro to cloud
Week 17-20: End-to-End Project + MLflow
🧠 Concepts: Data pipelines, versioning, YAML config files
📁 Build: Project pipeline with DVC or MLflow + ML system diagram
💼 LeetCode: Graphs, greedy algorithms
🚀 Deliverable: Repo with DAG + tracking + environment isolation
Week 21-24: Intro to MLOps + Model Deployment
🧠 Tools: Docker, FastAPI, GitHub Actions, AWS Lambda or GCP Cloud
Run
📁 Build: Containerize & deploy a vision model
💼 LeetCode: Dynamic programming
🚀 Deliverable: GitHub + live link to deployed ML app
Month 7-8: Real-World Projects (Vision, NLP, Time Series)
Goals: Create portfolio-worthy real-world use cases
Week 25-28: Computer Vision Project
🧠 Object detection/segmentation, YOLO, U-Net
📁 Build: Real-world defect detection or custom dataset CV app
💼 LeetCode: Binary search, backtracking
🚀 Deliverable: Hosted dashboard with model predictions + monitoring
Week 29-32: Time Series Forecasting + Tabular
🧠 ARIMA, LSTM, XGBoost, feature engineering
📁 Build: Sales prediction or sensor anomaly detection app
💼 LeetCode: Intervals, heaps
🚀 Deliverable: GitHub repo with notebook + web interface
Month 9-10: Advanced Topics & Open Source / Research
Goals: Contribute to OSS, apply for ML reproducibility challenges, or
benchmark models
Week 33-36: Transformers & Advanced NLP
🧠 BERT, attention, tokenizers, encoder-decoder, huggingface trainer
📁 Build: Text classification/fine-tuned BERT pipeline
💼 LeetCode: Tries, bit manipulation
🚀 Deliverable: Hugging Face model card, hosted demo
Week 37-40: OSS or Research Repro
🧠 Paper reading, reproduce model training & evaluation
📁 Contribute: Find GitHub issues or join Papers With Code
reproducibility challenge
💼 LeetCode: Hard dynamic programming
🚀 Deliverable: Public pull request or project benchmark report
Month 11-12: Interview Mastery + Final Portfolio Push
Goals: Job prep, final review, demo day
Week 41-44: DSA + ML System Design Prep
🧠 ML infra, scaling models, caching, memory vs latency tradeoffs
💼 Interview: Mock ML system design + whiteboard
📁 Build: Capstone project (vision/NLP) with CI, test, Docker, monitoring
Week 45-48: Resume, Networking, Branding, Mock Interviews
🧠 Cold email template, recruiter outreach, GitHub polish
📁 Finalize: Resume, cover letters, job tracker, application pipeline
💼 Mock interviews: Behavioral + technical + take-home
📌 Monthly Milestones
Mont
Checkpoint
h
1 GitHub repo with Python modules + test suite
2 ML algo blog + sklearn mini projects
2 deployed DL models + W&B or MLflow
3-4
integration
5-6 Full ML pipeline with Docker + FastAPI
7-8 2 advanced domain-specific projects
Transformer-based NLP project + OSS
9-10
contribution
11 Final capstone project with full pipeline
GitHub portfolio review + mock interviews +
12
applications
🎯 Optional Deep Dive Tracks
Track When Focus
Month 5– Prefect, Kubeflow, GCP
MLOps
10 Vertex AI
Month 4– Hugging Face Trainer, T5,
NLP
10 BERT
Month 3– YOLOv5/8, U-Net,
CV
8 segmentation
Researc Month 9– Paper review +
h 12 reproducibility
📚 Recommended Resources
Math: Linear Algebra (3Blue1Brown), Math for ML (Deisenroth)
DL: Deep Learning with PyTorch Book, Stanford CS231n
MLOps: Made With ML, Full Stack Deep Learning, MLflow docs
Projects: Papers With Code, Kaggle, Awesome ML Projects GitHub
Interview: Grokking ML Design, Interview Query, LeetCode, System
Design Primer
Branding: Latent Space, Towards Data Science, Polywork, LinkedIn