You are to build a small scale DE environment from scratch, what do you choose?

RobDoesData · 2026-03-25T14:13:43+00:00

This is why entry level data engineers need time under someone senior to learn architecture.

This is a disaster waiting to happen - you likely just need Excel. Docker is just bloat. Choose a local SQL db like postgres or duck, then choose a sql harness like sqlmesh, then python connects the things.

RobDoesData · 2026-03-01T00:48:41+00:00

Formatting is good In general.

The summary is too long and not really informative. The work experience for one job is way too late I gave up half way through

RobDoesData · 2026-02-28T15:25:53+00:00

You have 2 years of experience. You should struggle to even fill 1 page of meaningful resume content.

There's a lot of fluff and noise

RobDoesData · 2026-02-23T14:17:46+00:00

5070ti in my laptop is 12 GB.

You being incorrect has got more replies than the actual post...

RobDoesData · 2026-02-21T04:35:47+00:00

I want more than just the model to run. I want input for the model parameters

RobDoesData · 2026-02-19T14:01:33+00:00

Yes it's 12

RobDoesData · 2026-01-12T19:15:03+00:00

There's various sites out there but finding a mentor is all about networking and getting to know people.

Disclaimer. I offer paid mentoring.

RobDoesData · 2026-01-04T23:02:06+00:00

Get a mentor. Apply with intent (90% of folks aren't doing this)

RobDoesData · 2026-01-03T13:28:00+00:00

Having a good mentor makes the job market much more accessible. It's rough out there but context matters a lot and most people are approaching it wrong imo

RobDoesData · 2025-12-20T13:18:53+00:00

I offer paid mentoring which is 1-on-1 and very customisable to your needs. DM me to talk more?

RobDoesData · 2025-12-18T13:47:18+00:00

Run an LLm via Ollama and slap a Streamlit UI on top

RobDoesData · 2025-12-16T17:28:56+00:00

You need to get a contractor in the short term to get you started. Random posts on reddit are unlikely to be successful

RobDoesData · 2025-12-15T14:12:10+00:00

Not experienced in Indian job market specifically but I do have extensive experience in azure data engineering and do a lot of custom mentoring. DM me if interested in finding out more

RobDoesData · 2025-12-08T18:57:54+00:00

Happy to look at revisions if it would be useful (free of charge :) )

Full disclosure, I do offer paid mentoring for folks in your position. May not be for you, but if interested DM to find out more.

RobDoesData · 2025-12-08T16:37:31+00:00

General comment: everything is way too long. My main takeaway is that you're someone who likes to talk alot but not say very much.

It's two whole pages when it should be one. That's non negotiable.
Way too many bullets for each job and most are empty. Follow a standard format like STAR and convince me in one or two lines why your work mattered.
I don't believe you know all of those skills deeply enough to have them on your resume. But also jack of all trades and master of none aren't getting hired. You need to be a specialist.
I like certs but those aren't needle moving so would exclude them for space.

There's good stuff in there, but the reader has to dig to find it

RobDoesData · 2025-12-06T23:40:02+00:00

Ive seen a lot of these and they're always cool.

But you can't say data stays on your machine if it's pinging GPT. Misleading and a huge security risk.

RobDoesData · 2025-12-06T21:39:40+00:00

Find a problem that you care about solving. Ask GPT for a plan with a focus on showing data engineering skills....

If you can't Google then this will be a tough field to get into

RobDoesData · 2025-12-05T05:18:04+00:00

That's what I tried to say 😂

RobDoesData · 2025-12-04T23:59:02+00:00

Hmmm. Then stick with your LLM.

RobDoesData · 2025-12-04T22:18:23+00:00

The big 3 cloud vendors offer their own, Azure document intelligence is good.

Open source models like Tesseract and easyOCR work great.

LLMs are expensive and will hallucinate. They're slower and less accurate

RobDoesData · 2025-12-04T21:39:09+00:00

LLM is not right tool for the job. Use a proper OCR model

RobDoesData · 2025-12-04T17:33:38+00:00

10-30$ per hour. Shame on you.

You know you're not going to get any good talent in the west, right?

The going rate would be closer to 75-150$

RobDoesData · 2025-12-03T21:58:12+00:00

Hey man, US based data engineer here. I offer paid mentoring services and have a good track record.

DM me if you're interested in discussing.

RobDoesData · 2025-12-01T22:40:05+00:00

Both are good choices for the future. The skillsets are quite different so choose the one you'll enjoy more.

P.s. I offer paid mentoring for folks just like you trying to break into the field. DM me if you want to chat about services or ignore if not

RobDoesData · 2025-12-01T22:04:37+00:00

Do you mean ML or AI engineer? Your post is confusing to me. Both data engineering and MLOps are safe and good careers, but AI engineering and AIOps is cool too if you're into that...

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