The Project That Changed Everything: How Tutoring Juniors on SQL Led Me to Data Engineering

Short summary

A developer recounts how tutoring junior teammates on SQL basics at a corporate job sparked an unexpected passion for data infrastructure. The experience of seeing teammates grow and optimizing a messy legacy database led them to enroll in a 12-week Data Engineering bootcamp covering Databricks, PySpark, Data Mesh, and pipeline architecture. The author sees data engineering as a stepping stone toward eventual ML work.

• •Tutoring teammates on SQL revealed a passion for data infrastructure and teaching
• •Legacy database optimization experience motivated enrollment in a 12-week Data Engineering bootcamp
• •Author plans to eventually move from data engineering toward ML

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