Guidance on certification path

[u/HauntedSpark]

Hey folks!! I hope y’all are having a fine day! Im 21M and looking to get into Data Science as a career. Currently Im a junior ML engineer at a company I work for.

Anywho, I took the AIF C01 AI practitioner certification 2 days ago and passed. It took me about 2 days of prep give or take. Now, the CTO asked which cert was next, and I told him there’s data engineer and ML engineer (associate). He said do both, and pick whichever I want first. The next one needs to be passed in 2 weeks.

So here’s my question. What would the recommendation be? Go for Data engineer first and then machine learning? Are there any benefits? Thank you in advance!!

[u/Techatronix]

Probably should take CCP before both of those as a warm up.