Finish your degree. Start work in your field. Use all your spare income learning to fly and eventually a CPL. You can do this inside two years, ATPL and CPL theory will be childishly simple for anyone with a STEM based degree.
Thats it! Then join the endlessly long queue of freshly minted CPL holders looking for their first job. Jobs that will pay you a quarter of what you’re currently being paid in the data wrangling game.True, money isn’t everything and flying for a living is fun … until one day it isn’t. If and when that day ever comes, you will have the qualifications to ease back into I.T.
ps.. airline flying ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.