Kickstart Your Data Engineering Career: 9 Resources and Templates You Need

🎁 Plus an Additional 4 More For Future Data Consultants!

Back in 2019, I put together one of the first resources I’d share with the data engineering community, an interview guide for data engineers.

Since then, I have shared over a dozen guides, templates, and resources to help data leaders, engineers, new consultants, and people just getting started in the industry.

I wanted to compile those resources and templates all in one place. So that way, whether you’re just looking to break into data engineering or you just got hired, you’ve got a reliable list of resources you can turn to!

So, let’s dive in!

Just Getting Started

If you’re just getting started in your data career, or perhaps you’re about to go out and start interviewing again, then the next four templates and resources are for you.

1) 100 Day Data Engineering Crash Course

There isn’t any easy path to becoming a data engineer. I still always am learning new things. However, I did put together a 100-day crash course with free content that you can use to kick-start your journey. It covers everything from the basics like SQL and programming to topics like the Cloud and Docker.

So, if you’re looking to start your journey, you can check it out below!

100-Day Data Engineering Crash Course

If you go far enough back, you’ll find my original data engineering roadmap. Actually, someone just tweeted at me about it. And I agree, it was a little haptic! That’s why when I went back and did the 100-day crash course I put it in a google sheet so it’d be far easier to follow.

2) Data Engineering Side-Project Idea Template

There are a few videos and articles that cover data engineering projects.

For example you can look into Joseph Machado’s End-to-end data engineering project - batch edition or Darshil Parmar’s Uber Data Analytics | End-To-End Data Engineering Project.

But at a certain point, you need to come up with your own project. You don’t want to be the 500,000th person to build a project and put it on your resume. You want to come up with your own projects.

That’s why I put together a guide to help you plan it out.

Data Engineering Side Project Idea Template

Also, if you want a little more depth to this guide, then you can check out this article.

3) Data Engineer Interview Study Guide

So, it’s time to start interviewing. It can be hard to know what to study.

Here's a quick bit of advice before we get to the actual resource. Make sure you ask the recruiter what to expect, and don’t start studying after you get the interview. I have plenty of people reach out and tell me they have two weeks before an interview, and they aren’t sure what to study. Honestly, you’re cutting it too close to not know.

That’s one reason I put together the guide below. To help people prepare for various interviews, whether on Amazon or Facebook.

But again, always ask your recruiter before diving into this guide!

Data Engineering Interview Study Guide