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# Machine Learning Fundamentals

**Technical competency** - master-software-engineering (Master) - Advanced

## Competency description

Understand and apply machine learning fundamentals including supervised/unsupervised learning, neural networks, model evaluation, and integration of AI capabilities into software applications.

## Personal Confidence

**Advanced** - 4/5

Scale: 1. Foundational · 2. Developing · 3. Proficient · 4. Advanced · 5. Expert

This reflects my personal confidence in applying this competency in real-world professional situations, based on hands-on experience, continuous learning, and practical outcomes.

## Details

- Domain: Hard skill (technical)
- Source: master-software-engineering (Master)
- Confidence level: 4/5 (Advanced)
- Category: data-ai

## Progression across journey

This skill was developed across 2 different journey items.

- **2016** - [Technical Project Manager · Co-founder · Early-Stage Startup](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/journey/adspower-cofounder.md) (entrepreneurship) - Confidence: 2/5
- **2023** - [master-software-engineering](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/journey/master-software-engineering.md) (education) - Confidence: 4/5

## Related curriculum topics

- **Cross-Functional Management** (Block 1 - Client Relationship Management in Software Engineering): The fundamentals of management
- **Leading and Managing a Team** (Block 1 - Client Relationship Management in Software Engineering): Management fundamentals
- **NoSQL** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Relational fundamentals, Relational fundamentals: demonstration
- **Application Test Plans** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Fundamentals of unit testing
- **Introduction to Machine Learning** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Machine Learning in full expansion, Discover Machine Learning concepts, Understand supervised learning, Visualize the lifecycle of a Machine Learning project, Structure your Machine Learning project, Discover Deep Learning
- **Business English** (Block 5 - English Language Proficiency Preparation): Overcoming common false beliefs in English learning

## Broader curriculum context

Other modules from the same training program that provide complementary context:

- **Functional Analysis of an IS Project** (Block 1 - Client Relationship Management in Software Engineering): Introduction - Definition, Types of functional analyses, The functional specifications document, Steps of functional analysis, Needs analysis
- **Effectively Initiating an IS Project** (Block 1 - Client Relationship Management in Software Engineering): What is an IS project?, IS project typology, Projects and products, Role of the Project Owner (MOE), Role of the Client/Business Owner (MOA)
- **IT Contract Law** (Block 1 - Client Relationship Management in Software Engineering): Notions of obligations, Introduction to IT contracts, The content of the IT contract, Obligations of IT service providers, The client's obligations
- **UX and Wireframing** (Block 1 - Client Relationship Management in Software Engineering): Design thinking at the service of marketing strategy, User Experience, User Experience and UX Design, User research, Card sorting and tree testing
- **Design Thinking** (Block 1 - Client Relationship Management in Software Engineering): Discovery and history of Design Thinking, History and evolution of Design Thinking, The 5 phases of Design Thinking (overview), Design Thinking in the business world, Design Thinking phase 1: Empathize
- **Executing and Managing a Software Engineering Project** (Block 2 - Software Engineering Project Management): What is project management for?, Differences between projects and operations, Discovering the project context, Defining the project scope, Establishing the project charter
- **Advanced Agile Methods / Scrum** (Block 2 - Software Engineering Project Management): The history of project management, Different project management models, Start with the why, OKRs, Knowing our end users
- **Leadership and Management** (Block 2 - Software Engineering Project Management): What is management?, Key missions of a manager, What is leadership?, Different leadership styles, Start by knowing yourself (better)
- **Project Communication** (Block 2 - Software Engineering Project Management): What is a project?, Defining communication, Different types of communication, At which project stages to communicate, Why communicate in a project
- **JavaScript: Introduction and Object-Oriented Programming** (Block 3 - Software Development): The language of the web, Work environment, Variables, Operators, Conditional structures
- **JavaScript: Event-Driven and Asynchronous Programming** (Block 3 - Software Development): JavaScript and the DOM, The global window object, Selecting elements, Creating and deleting elements, Managing CSS rules
- **Developing Web Applications with TypeScript** (Block 3 - Software Development): Introduction to TypeScript, Installing and configuring TypeScript, Fundamental types, Tuple types, Object and Array types
- **Front-End Development Fundamentals with Angular** (Block 3 - Software Development): Once upon a time.. Angular!, Installation, Editing our application, Introduction to components, Creating a component
- **Advanced Front-End Development with Angular** (Block 3 - Software Development): Introduction, Setting up the base project, Routes, Navigation, Passing parameters to routes
- **Mastering Java SE** (Block 3 - Software Development): Presentation and history of the Java ecosystem, Presentation and installation of JDK 17, Presentation and installation of Eclipse 2022-12, First class: the HelloWorld class, Primitive types, objects, and arrays
- **Developing in Java with Spring and Hibernate** (Block 3 - Software Development): Introduction to Jakarta EE and Spring, Introduction to Jakarta Persistence and Hibernate, Spring projects, Presentation of the Reviews project, Spring layered models and the concept of stereotypes
- **Advanced Git - GitHub and GitLab** (Block 3 - Software Development): Some Git reminders, Cherry-picking a commit, Recovering lost commits (reflog), Adding notes, Importing an SVN repository
- **Mastering Docker and DevOps** (Block 3 - Software Development): What is DevOps?, Introduction to Docker, Installing Docker, Managing Docker images, Launching and managing containers
- **Application Deployment** (Block 3 - Software Development): Deployment in the application lifecycle, UML deployment diagram, UML component diagram, Typology of traditional hosting, Typology of cloud hosting
- **Kubernetes for Container Orchestration** (Block 3 - Software Development): Introduction, Docker basics, Volumes, Dockerfile, and Registry, Docker basics: demonstration, Docker Compose
- **Mastering the Kotlin Language** (Block 3 - Software Development): Presentation, HelloWorld, Different typing systems, Optimizing your IDE, Functions and function expressions
- **Developing Android Mobile Applications in Kotlin** (Block 3 - Software Development): Presentation, HelloWorld, Mastering the project architecture, Creating a graphical interface, Internationalizing your application
- **Building a REST API with Spring Boot** (Block 3 - Software Development): What is a REST API?, Introduction to Spring Boot, Model your API with draw.io, Set up your work environment, Explore the file structure and start the application
- **SOLID Principles in Java** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): The code quality challenge, SOLID principles, a response to maintainable code challenges, S: Single Responsibility Principle Introduction, Violating the Single Responsibility Principle, Respecting the Single Responsibility Principle
- **Software Architecture** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): The necessity of software architecture, Overview of software architectures, Introduction to monolithic architecture, Monolithic architecture use cases, Implementing monolithic architecture in Java
- **Complex Application Design with UML** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Introduction to structural modeling with UML, Class diagram (classes and inheritance), Class diagram with Visual Paradigm, Translating the class diagram to code (classes and inheritance), Class diagram (relationships and multiplicity)
- **Design Patterns in Java** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Introduction: GoF Design Patterns, the legend, Description of Creational Design Patterns, Description of the Singleton Design Pattern, Implementation of Singleton, Description of the Factory Method Design Pattern
- **Web Application Security** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Introduction to web application security, Authentication and authorization in web applications, Discover OWASP recommendations, Recommendation A01-2021: Broken Access Control, Recommendation A02-2021: Cryptographic Failures
- **Advanced Algorithms** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Optimizing, where to start?, Searching, a complex task?, Improving search with sorting, Sorting complexity, Improving sorting in the best case
- **Functional Programming in Scala** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Introduction to functional programming, Rules and laws on functions, Introduction to Scala, Installing IntelliJ IDEA / Using SBT, An overview of Scala
- **Distributed Architecture and Big Data** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): Introduction to Big Data, Distributed architecture, Business implications of Big Data and distributed architecture, Database management systems, NoSQL
- **Data Structures** (Block 4 - Advanced Software Architecture Design): The right data structure, What does a graph contain?, Directed and undirected graphs, Weighted graphs, Graph data structure
- **Advanced Business English** (Block 5 - English Language Proficiency Preparation): Vocabulary Expansion for Professional Contexts, Speaking Skills for Business Meetings and Presentations, Writing Skills for Business Emails and Reports, Business Negotiations, Professional Presentations and Public Speaking
- **Intermediate Business English** (Block 5 - English Language Proficiency Preparation): Professional English Communication in Sales, Professional English Communication in Sales, Communication via Phone and Email, Managing Misunderstandings and Expressing Disagreement in English Conversations, Differences between French and Anglo-Saxon Cultures
- **English: TOEIC Preparation** (Block 5 - English Language Proficiency Preparation): Introduction to TOEIC®, Types of TOEIC®, Focus on the TOEIC®: Listening and Reading, The new TOEIC®, How to prepare
- **Human Resources English** (Block 6 - Preparatory and Reinforcement Modules): Introducing yourself and your position, HR professions in the workplace, Understanding and using professional communication codes (hierarchy, distance, formal-informal), Collecting needs and adapting a job description for international recruitment, Writing a clear and attractive job posting in English

## Other technical competencies from the same diploma

- [Software Architecture Patterns](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/software-architecture-patterns.md) - Design scalable software systems using architectural patterns such as layered architecture, hexagonal architecture, microservices, event-driven archit
- [SOLID Principles & Clean Code](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/solid-principles-clean-code.md) - Apply SOLID principles (Single Responsibility, Open/Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, Dependency Inversion) and clean code practices
- [Design Patterns (Gang of Four)](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/design-patterns-gof.md) - Implement Gang of Four design patterns (Creational, Structural, Behavioral) to solve recurring design problems and build flexible, reusable object-ori
- [Testing Strategy & Software Quality](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/testing-strategy-quality.md) - Define and execute comprehensive testing strategies including unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, TDD/BDD practices, and software q
- [Web Application Security (OWASP)](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/web-application-security-owasp.md) - Secure web applications by applying OWASP Top 10 guidelines, implementing authentication/authorization, preventing injection attacks, XSS, CSRF, and c
- [JavaScript Programming (OOP, Event-Driven, Async)](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/javascript-programming.md) - Master JavaScript programming paradigms including object-oriented programming, event-driven architecture, asynchronous patterns (Promises, async/await
- [TypeScript Development](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/typescript-development.md) - Develop type-safe applications with TypeScript, leveraging advanced type systems, generics, decorators, interfaces, and integration with modern framew
- [Java SE Programming](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/java-se-programming.md) - Program robust applications in Java SE, mastering core concepts such as collections, generics, streams, multithreading, I/O, and the JVM ecosystem.
- [Java Spring & Hibernate](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/java-spring-hibernate.md) - Develop enterprise applications using Spring Framework (Boot, MVC, Security, Data) and Hibernate ORM for database persistence, transaction management,
- [REST API Design & Implementation](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/skills/rest-api-design.md) - Design and implement RESTful APIs following best practices including resource modeling, HTTP methods, status codes, authentication, versioning, docume

## Acquired during: Master Expert in Software Engineering

Master Expert in Software Engineering at ESIEA (2023-2026), RNCP Level 7. Covers the full software lifecycle: architecture, development, DevOps, project management, and team leadership.

[See full journey entry](https://portfolio.josedacosta.info/en/journey/master-software-engineering.md)

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