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Interviewing for your dream data engineering job can be exhilarating and enlivening. The best jobs will require commitment and focus on your part.  In this series, I want to help you with the interviewing part of the recruitment process. We can’t cover every variance in companies’ approaches, but I’ve had my share of interviews and…

A solution-driven mindset You might think learning Spark, Kafka or AWS is more important, but you’d be wrong.  Data Engineers who get the best jobs see solutions where others are stuck on what can’t be done.  Here is one of the hardest, most important lessons I learned.  Let’s look at what it takes to change…

There are varying opinions on LLMs. I take it as a disrupting technology – a tool that can be used, misused or misapplied. Disruptive technologies tend to be over-hyped in the short-term and under-appreciated over longer horizons (Read How Innovation Works if you want to know more). LLMs in pedagogy are most exciting to me….

Your Blog Post Title Part 1 of this series, showed the steps to becoming a Data Engineer. In part 2, I want to help you identify the areas in your data engineering career path that you should focus on. In part one, you should have gotten a feel for what’s required to be a Data…

How to Get a Job as a Data Engineer (Part 1) In this series of articles, I want to help you secure a job as a data engineer. This first article will assess your current situation and outline what you need based on where you are in your career. Understanding Your Starting Point The purpose…