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Elevate your brand ASAP and get a role faster

Hey Data Geek. Today’s topic? Build a strong personal brand and see how more job offers will come to you in the long term.

How to do that as a Data Engineer? Here I let you some tips:

• Start by building a strong online presence through platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub, where you can share your projects, contributions, and insights
• Actively engage in relevant communities (Data Quality Camp is one of my favorite Data-focused communities) and forums to establish yourself as a thought leader and network with professionals in the industry.
• Additionally, create a personal website or blog (this newsletter is an example of it and it’s built with beehiiv) to share your knowledge and experiences, demonstrating your ability to solve complex data problems.
• Collaborate on open-source projects to demonstrate your teamwork and problem-solving skills.
• Attend industry conferences (like Trino Summit 2023) and events to stay updated with the latest trends and technologies, and consider speaking at these events to establish yourself as an expert.
• and finally, continuously invest in your professional development by acquiring new skills and certifications, as this will enhance your credibility and make you stand out in the competitive field of data engineering.

If you make this right, I guarantee you that you won’t have to find another job, they will come to you.

Time to elevate yourself, my friend.

Who is hiring this week?

• Negin Salajegheh from Netflix is hiring a Security Analytics Engineer (Location: Remote, United States; Salary range: $150,000 to $700,000 per year): IDEA: Chat with Negin about it
• Sri Subramanian from SurveyMonkey is hiring a Data Engineer (Location: Portland, Oregon or Remote, United States; Salary Range: $106,880 to $160,320 per year). IDEA: Use this idea here on Kaggle and build a similar notebook with public survey data.
• Paritosh Gupta from Autodesk is looking for a Data Engineer (Location: Bangalore, India). They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Python, SQL, AWS) based in Bengaluru, India as well. IDEA: Chat with Paritosh about it
• Malte Ubl from Vercel is looking for Software Engineers focused on AI (Location: Remote US; Salary range: $175,000.00 - $245,000.00 per year). IDEA: Check out their AI tools, and their AI Accelerator. Watch the Demo Day, and pick your favorite ones

Good luck with your job application

Recommendation of the week: Data Engineering Design Patterns (DEDP), by Simon Späti

This book is very interesting for so many reasons. First, it’s not finished and it’s based on feedback. So, read it, write your feedback to Simon, and learn in the process.

Get the book here

Interesting resources of the week

• AWS Graviton Weekly # 66
• The No.1 Reason why some engineers are worth $1M+ per year, by Ryan Peterman
• Data-powered Growth, by Arpit Choudhury
• [tl;dr sec] #210: , by Clint Gibler
• December is a great time to look for jobs, according to Tobi Oluwole
• My Journey into Postgres Monitoring with Lukas Fittl, Rob Treat, Claire Giordano, and Pino de Candia
• From Data Modeling to MLOps For LLMS: Lessons from the DEML Summit, by Benjamin Rogojan
• The Analytics Engineering Podcast Ep 55: Data Mesh Architecture at Large Enterprises (w/ Moritz Heimpel and Ben Flusberg)

Tool of the week: Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Marcos out