8 Data Engineering Principals

for the analytics expert

Analytics. What, you think I should stick to my lane and keep with Data Engineering-specific content? Well, I bring you tidings of great joy, my friend.

Many moons ago, before the age of Databricks, when Hadoop clusters roamed the land and wizards who wrote Pig were worshiped as demigods, you could have found me creating reports in SAP and dashboards for a living.

A few long and arduous years later, if you peeked through my windows, you would have seen me studying Microsoft SQL Server exams in a bid to get certified, after which I had my green eye set on that elusive but popular “Business Intelligence Engineer” title.

I did get that title, by the way. If you care, you can read more about my journey here.

All that to say, I was bringing analytical insights to those cranky business users while you were at your high school prom, or playing beer pong in a dorm room.