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Data Engineer Roadmap
8 months to complete💰 ₹10L – ₹40L (India) | $110K – $180K (US)
Build the pipelines, warehouses, and infrastructure that move and transform data at scale. Data engineers are the plumbers of the data world — without them, data scientists have no data to work with.
Learning Path
1
Python & Pandas
Phase 1 of 8
2
SQL Advanced
Phase 2 of 8
3
Apache Kafka
Phase 3 of 8
4
dbt
Phase 4 of 8
5
Airflow
Phase 5 of 8
6
Spark Basics
Phase 6 of 8
7
Cloud Data Warehouses
Phase 7 of 8
8
Pipeline Orchestration
Phase 8 of 8
Skills You'll Build
Python & Pandas
SQL (advanced analytics)
Apache Kafka (streaming)
Airflow (orchestration)
dbt (transformation)
Cloud data warehouses (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake)
Spark basics
Job Titles You Can Target
Data EngineerAnalytics EngineerData Platform EngineerETL Developer