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EcZachly/README.md

Zach Wilson — Data Engineer (aka “eczachly”)


🌐 Online Profiles

Website LinkedIn Instagram YouTube


🛠️ Featured GitHub Repositories


🎓 Courses & Bootcamps

  • Data Engineer Handbook – A complete roadmap with interviews, projects, books, and community recommendations
  • Bootcamp (Live) – Past cohorts include May 2024; new cohort planned for January 2025
  • Online / Free Bootcamp – Community-supported cohort with shared projects and peer reviews

💼 Career Highlights & Posts

  • 📈 Career trajectory: Analyst → Data Engineer at Teradata → FAANG → Netflix → Airbnb (earning $500–600K by 2023)
  • ✍️ Popular philosophy posts:
    • "You’re a data engineer, you don’t ‘use Spark and Kafka’ … focus on business outcomes"
    • "Data engineering isn’t just Spark … stop boiling roles down to one technology"
  • 🗺️ Learning roadmap: SQL → Data modeling → Python → Data quality → Distributed compute → Orchestration → Big data tools

📝 Summary

Zach Wilson (“eczachly”) is a high-impact data engineer, educator, and open-source contributor. His work includes practical example repositories, the most-starred Data Engineering Handbook on GitHub, live bootcamp cohorts, and widely-shared industry insights. His guidance—from strategic mindset to detailed technical roadmaps—makes him one of the most trusted voices in the data engineering community.


Last updated: July 2025

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