[francislata]

My company have been wanting to start an ML team for the last year. While I have been doing my own learning with ML and deep learning, I mentioned to my CTO during my one-on-one that I want to ML for the company and I showed my progress to him with my side projects.

Proving that you can apply your self-taught knowledge and letting them know you can provide value as your time spent in the new field grows, will be more than enough for the company to let you make the switch.