Data Engineer Things Newsletter #13
Upcoming online webinar on career growth and in-person mentorship opportunities.
Hello there,
Creating more in-person learning and networking opportunities for the community has been my focus this year. The DET team hosted two more successful meetup events in the last month: one in Seattle and another in London!
The next meetup in the Bay Area and Seattle will happen in late June. Stay tuned.
🌟 DET Online Webinar on May 23
Career and personal growth isn't linear. It happens in pivotal "moments" that transform your perspective and actions forever. The same applies to Data Engineering. In this online webinar, Shachar Meir, Data Advisor and Ex-Director of Data Engineering at Meta, will share some of the most impactful "growth moments" from his career in data. These are real-world stories with significant lessons that offer valuable insights and learnings.
👉🏼 Sign up HERE (limited to 100 attendees).
🌟 DET Mentors at Snowflake Data Cloud Summit on June 6
Looking for guidance on growing your career in data engineering? Join us on Snowflake Dev Day to get mentorship from experienced DET Mentors:
Date & Time: 3 PM - 4 PM on Thu, June 6
Location: Moscone Center, 747 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103. Meet us at the Connect() lounge area.
Signup: HERE (Free registration)
Below are the mentors you will get to meet and connect with in person:
Hao Xu (Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan & Chase)
Jai Balani (Senior Data Engineer at Netflix)
Sekhar Sahu (Staff Software Engineer at Zeta Global)
Sharath Vandanapu (Senior Manager, Data Engineering at Confluent)
Sreyashi Das (Senior Data Engineer at Netflix)
Yaakov Bressler (Senior Data Engineer at Headspace)
🎟 Community Discount for the AIQCon
The MLOps community is hosting the AI Quality Conference on June 25 in San Francisco. In this event, you'll engage with industry leaders and builders in creating the gold standard of AI Quality. These topics of AI quality will be covered: accuracy, transparency, generalization, bias mitigation, efficiency, cost, and more.
Apply code testinprod at checkout for 20% off. (Thank you, Demetrios!)
📚 Articles of the Week
How to Think about Internal Data Products as a Data Engineer by Hugo Lu
Minds and Machines — AI for Mental Health Support, Fine-Tuning LLMs with LoRA in Practice by Volker Janz
Data Gateway — A Platform for Growing and Protecting the Data Tier by Netflix Technology Blog
One Big Table vs. Dimensional Modeling on Databricks SQL by Databricks (Most concepts discussed are applicable outside of the Databricks platform)
How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity by Cory Watson
(Want to publish blogs with DET? Read our submission guidelines here.)
Have a great week and see you next time! 🦆
Cheers,
Xinran Waibel (LinkedIn)