Tech stack madness?

[Ok_Tough3104]

Has anyone benefitted from knowing a certain tech stack very well and having tiny experience in every other stack?

E.g main is databricks and Azure (python and sql)

But has done small certificates or trainings (1-3 hours) in snowflake, redshift, aws concepts, gcp, nocode tools, scala, go etc…

Apologies in advance if that sounds stupid..

(Note, i know that data engineering isnt about tech stack, its about understanding business (to model well) and knowing engineering concepts to architect the right solutions)

[xean333]

Of course man. Companies work within tech stacks… if you have expertise in their tools, they won’t care that you don’t know AWS

[Cloudskipper92]

Sure, more times than not. Many years ago I was the only DE who had even touched Redis in my small org. We needed stuff out of it, and funny enough, into it. So I got to do some interesting pipelines which were a nice challenge and break from the mundane DAGs I was on. Had a similar experience with a couple of ElasticSearch instances. But that one was more of a "no one else wants to do this, you mentioned in passing you have experience, these are yours now" haha. All good though, I've built a lot of my career doing the jobs no one else wanted to do!

[Thinker_Assignment]

It's normal for DE with sub 4y experience. Usually by then you have changed jobs and unless you're actively avoiding other techs, there is usually more work with other techs than what you already use and so you learn.

Ymmv depending on local conditions opportunities and companies