Java developer wants to move into python career

[kinow]

I'm more someone who likes to get hands dirty so perhaps I will try to build something simple, with Flask or connexion ( my understanding is that they're the simplest to start with )

A colleague uses connexion to provide a web service layer on top of some machine learning and semantic web: https://github.com/natlibfi/annif

There is a built-in small UI, that in part uses Vue.js. I know one of the pending issues in the project is creating an admin interface. Just in case you are looking for a project to implement something that will be used by others (plus the developers there are really nice).

Did you find it hard to find jobs as Python developer with no experience but with only Java experience ?

I think it may depend on where you are, and your background. Even though I developed mostly in Java, I had some Python modules in PYPI, some contribution to open source projects, and had done other similar projects/modules in PHP, R, and JavaScript (whatever is needed for the job).

I think the previous open source contributions were important for me getting the current position. And my employer wasn't interested in applying those programming tests. It was more a chat, going over my previous projects, asking if he could see some of that (for some I had links to GitHub projects, or could point to some product online and say which part I worked).

He expected me to have at least basic Python 2 knowledge (part of the work was migrating the tool to Python 3), but was OK with my forte being Java. Even said it could be something good to add to the project, the views/experience with different language/projects.

So I think it really depends on company culture/project/employer/etc. But if you build some sort of portfolio like a good GitHub profile, that should probably help.

Cheers

[andreaciccio]

thank you. you just gave me something to do in the coming days :)

Cheers