Data Engineer Learning Path: What I would study today to become one

The question I’m asked the most. Read here a short advice on what you need to study.

Hi my network, mostly aspiring or newcomers in the world of data and data engineering. Second question that I receive most in the LinkedIn inbox: Cassio, what would you study to become a data engineer today?

So, I compiled what I would study in order of importance, which doesn’t mean I can’t study in parallel (which I recommend, by the way). That is, you don’t need to be a professional in SQL to learn python. But, it’s not much use learning Spark if you don’t have a nice python (or another language). Do you know? Here are my recommendations:

SQL

• Free course at https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/sql-and-databases-full-course/
• Training -> https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/sql
• The Data Warehouse toolkit -> https://www.amazon.com.br/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Definitive-Dimensional/dp/1118530802/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pt_BR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=4Z5IZCWO4TKN&keywords=data+warehouse+toolkit&qid=1655805662&sprefix=data+warehouse+tool+k%2Caps%2C283&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.25548f35-0de7-44b3-b28e-0f56f3f96147
• Understand Data Modeling ( I wrote this Data…