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Episode 75:

How To Become a Data Engineer with Parham Parvizi of the Data Stack Academy

February 16, 2022

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Parham Parvizi, founder of the Data Stack Academy as well as a few large SV companies. During the episode, Par unpacks a career in data engineering from the history to signs you’d be a good fit.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Par’s background and current role (2:48)
  • About Talend (6:46)
  • Nonlinear pathways to data engineering roles (11:08)
  • What a data engineer needs to be successful (17:37)
  • Before “data engineer” was a title (27:59)
  • Signs you should be a data engineer (32:39)
  • Curiosity and data engineering (38:31)
  • Defining the modern data stack (45:07)
  • How to get a feel for data engineering (52:52)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

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