I have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and for the longest time, I thought I would become a Hardware Engineer. I didn't really have a passion for it but it was what I had gotten myself into, spent four years (or more) of my life on and I thought that was it, that was my reality and that's where my career was going to go. I even applied for a Computer Engineering program for my Master's to see if I start liking it. My third semester in graduate school, I took a Machine Learning course because it was the "hot" thing to do back then (still is!) and decided to do my Master's Thesis in the field. That's when I decided to pivot to a career in Data Science/ML. For once, I really enjoyed what I was doing. The problem I was trying to solve was very real and the impact of my work for once felt quantifiable. Security happened by chance, but boy am I glad it did! I was looking for interesting applications of ML and landed up at FireEye right out of graduate school. The learning curve was steep, given that I had no security background but I loved every bit of it. The thing I love about security is that there's never a dull moment. With so many people, businesses and pretty much everything going digital, there's so much room for things to go wrong and to think that I get to be one of the few people (and one among the 11% women in the field!) who get to be at the frontlines of it makes me feel like a bit of a Cyberwarrior.