[haskellandchill]

you can do anything if you are able to convince your interviewer that hiring you will work out. I transitioned from web dev to data science by getting a VP of data science to work with me as lead engineer on their projects then studying in my free time and doing well on data science interviews to get a lead data scientist position. I went back to software engineering and now I am thinking about the same as you are. I will leverage my Data Science background, study, and do some ML projects. That should make me competitive in interviews and I expect to transition by the end of the year.