Hey fellow primates! Let's Go bananas!

Let me introduce by telling a few things about myself that might be interesting and useful in this forum.
I did an Economics Master's, and then went on to pursue for about 2 years a job as Business Analyst mainly around Credit Cards Business of Citigroup (read crunching data from billions of credit card transactions, and then send you guys all the sweet looking customised mailers for discounts and/or any other incentives to get you to use the card).
Got bored so then joined as a full-stack developer/hacker in founding team of a startup ( also to see how pursuing python coding hobby full time turns out) and after a little more than a year we recently completed a nice seed funding round from silicon valley VCs.
So now after nearly than 3.5 years out of college I have developed skills like big data analytics, predictive modelling, machine learning and experience with softwares like SQL, R, SAS, basic Hadoop at Citi. Then at startup fully developed the hobby skills to professional level in Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Databases, Elasticsearch, etc. with experience in managing cloud based application infrastructure at places like Amazon AWS resources and similar. Also got a good design and UX, SEO, etc. experience here for web products.
I had dabbled around with financial time series modelling and forecasting in college and then at an internship at a financial consulting firm and in the process developed good comfort with statistical modelling in MATLAB, Eviews, STATA. Also played around with implementing a few papers around hybrid models between machine learning techniques like neural networks and traditional time series like ARCH methodologies to model time series like stock returns.
Now given that I have dabbled all around the place, I am still looking for what I would really love to do for rest of my life. Given all these skills that I have gathered in the first quarter of life, I would love to have suggestions as to what career course to take now that would be useful and allow me to leverage these unique combination of skills to add maximum value and create impact.
Oh and if anybody would want to know/ask anything in these areas, please feel free to reach out, would love to interact with you.

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