Former Bartender Builds Career Path Into Google

Milica Cvetkovic, 35, a senior technical solutions consultant at Google in Chicago, recounts a nontraditional career path that included bartending, caregiving, curriculum design, graduate statistics study at UW–Madison, and machine-learning roles before joining Google. She says she has spent about three years building AI systems for Google Cloud customers, and that discipline and the ability to explain technical concepts to nontechnical audiences helped secure the role.