# Study Home > One at a time # Study Direction Goal: Be an effective ML Engineer with strong fundamentals of engineering and ML but diving deeper on the engineering side. I want to be a kickass software engineer not necessarily a machine learning researcher. - strong fundamentals of software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning - be familiar with machine learning systems design and best practices # Topics - [Data Engineering and ML Ops](_data-engineering-mlops.md) - [Machine Learning Fundamentals](_machine-learning.md) - [Software Engineering](_software-engineering.md) # Reading Lists - #mlops Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen - #mlops #ml AI Engineering by Chip Huyen - #career https://huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-book/