CLOUD DATA ENGINEERING

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About The Course

The Cloud Data Engineering Training & Internship Program is a comprehensive, beginner-to-advanced course designed to help you build, manage, and optimize scalable data pipelines on cloud platforms. This program focuses on real-world data engineering practices used by modern enterprises to process massive volumes of data efficiently and securely.

You’ll learn how raw data moves from multiple sources to analytics-ready systems using cloud-native tools, distributed processing frameworks, and data warehouses. The program emphasizes hands-on implementation, industry workflows, and internship-style project experience to make you job-ready.

Whether you aim to become a data engineer or want to strengthen your backend and cloud skills, this program equips you with production-level data engineering expertise.

Key points

Lessons of the Course

MODULE 1: DATA INGESTION & CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
 
Cloud Foundations & Storage Patterns
  • Object storage (S3 / GCS / Azure Blob) vs. block storage and understanding the data lake concept
  • Focus: Data partitioning and file formats (Parquet vs. Avro vs. JSON)
  • Project: Build a serverless ingestion layer that triggers on file uploads and catalogs data
Batch vs. Streaming Ingestion
  • Implementing change data capture (CDC) and event-driven architectures
  • Tools: Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub
  • Project: Build a real-time log streamer handling 10k events per second into a cloud landing zone
Security & Identity (IAM)
  • Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) and encryption at rest and in transit
MODULE 2: THE DATA WAREHOUSE & MODERN TRANSFORMATION
 
Cloud Data Warehousing (CDW)
  • Architecture of Snowflake, BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift
  • Focus: Separation of compute and storage, clustering keys
  • Project: Migrate a large on-prem SQL database to a clustered Snowflake warehouse
The Medallion Architecture & dbt (data build tool)
  • Bronze (raw) → Silver (cleaned) → Gold (business-ready) data layers
  • Mastering dbt for version-controlled, SQL-based transformations
  • Project: Build a production-grade transformation pipeline with automated documentation and testing
Advanced SQL & Query Optimization
  • Window functions, CTEs, and query execution plan analysis
  • Focus: Optimizing queries to reduce cloud costs
MODULE 3: ORCHESTRATION, RELIABILITY & DATAOPS
 
Workflow Orchestration (The Conductor)
  • Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and task dependencies
  • Tools: Apache Airflow, Prefect, Mage
  • Project: Orchestrate a multi-stage data pipeline with retries, alerts, and failure notifications
Data Quality & Observability
  • Implementing circuit breakers for data integrity
  • Testing for nulls, uniqueness, and schema drift
  • Tools: Great Expectations, dbt-tests, Monte Carlo (basics)
Capstone: The End-to-End Cloud Data Factory
  • Build a fully automated pipeline: Ingest API data → Load to CDW → Transform with dbt → Orchestrate with Airflow → Deploy via CI/CD
  • Deliverable: Live dashboard and GitHub repository with a documented, tested, and deployed data product
TOOLS & LIBRARIES SUMMARY
 
Tools & Libraries Summary
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (S3, Lambda) / GCP (BigQuery, GCS)
  • Warehousing: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift
  • Transformation: dbt (Core), SQL, Spark (PySpark)
  • Orchestration: Apache Airflow, Prefect
  • Ingestion: Fivetran, Airbyte, Kafka

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Senior Software & Enterprise Architect

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