[btbuildem]

I work with data scientists, SWEs and various flavours of engineers.

My advice would be to finish your degree. You're close and it's worth it.

After that, branch out into some specific domain that interests you. It will give you an incredible edge over all vanilla DS / SWE people. Plus, it'll make work interesting.

Pure SWE after a while will give you the same feeling as you're experiencing now. You're just building web apps for some startup dweebs, or shuffling endless Java classes in some grey corp.

So yeah. DS skills will come in handy, so will SWE skills. Great to get that base in your education. But long-term, find an interesting niche and get good at it. Just not anything super-obscure as not to limit your options too much.

Good luck!