The Data Engineering Academy
- Learn Data Engineering with our online Academy
- Perfect for becoming a Data Engineer, getting better at engineering or adding Data Engineering to your skillset
- Proven process based on over a decade of experience and hundreds of hours of personal coaching
- Training on the most important fundamentals, tools and platforms plus our Associate Data Engineer Certification
- Live office hours
- Private Discord community with hundreds of members
Join our ultimate Academy with everything you need to know to learn Data Engineering.
The Data Engineer Coaching
- Become a full-stack Data Engineer by building a real-world data platform tailored to your goals
- Follow our proven 12-week project roadmap with structure, milestones, and accountability
- Get 6 months of expert mentorship and support to keep growing
- Join weekly expert-led group sessions for feedback, troubleshooting, and progress
- Get lifetime access to our full Academy
- Receive a certificate and career-ready portfolio project by the end
With our program you will reach your goals within 6 months. The next cohort kicks off July 21. Enroll until Sunday, July 20 to join.
Everything included:
1. Data Engineering Basics
Start your Data Engineering journey with essential concepts and practical skills. Learn Data Engineering basics, computer science, Python, data preparation, Docker, and job application strategies.
2. Platform & Pipeline Design Fundamentals
Develop hands-on skills with essential Data Engineering tools, covering the entire workflow from data ingestion and message queues to orchestration, processing frameworks, and visualization techniques.
3. Fundamental Tools
Module three contains hands-on trainings on fundamental tools. From data ingestion, message queues, processing frameworks to visualization.
4. Example projects
Apply your knowledge through hands-on projects on major cloud platforms and your own computer. Gain practical experience with real-world scenarios and industry-relevant tools.
Hi, I'm Andreas Kretz
Your Data Engineering Instructor and Coach
I am a Senior Data Engineer and Trainer, tech enthusiast, and a father. I have been passionate about Data Engineering for over a decade.
First as a self-taught Data Engineer and then Data Engineering team leader in a large company. When I realized how much need there was for training in this area, I followed my passion and started my own Data Engineering Academy.
Since then, I helped over 2,000 students achieve their goals.
Are you ready to start your journey?
Then let's work on it together - I'll show you how you too can become a successful Data Engineer or use Data Engineering in your job.
My proven training program has already helped over 2,000 students achieve success! They work at:
Grow your salary and make over $100,000 per year
Data Engineering is one of the most exciting and fastest growing professions in the data space right now! Professional Data Engineers easily make over $100,000 per year! Because it’s a very large field with many tools running on very different platforms, experts are not easy to find but the better paid.
Learn Data Engineering content is based on the latest market standard and is constantly being expanded. With our expertise, we have already boosted the careers of tens of thousands of people online.
Is Data Engineering for you?
Data Engineering is super hard to learn on your own. Where should you start? Which courses should you take? It's such a very large field with hundreds of tools on different platforms. I have created a test for you to find out if Data Engineering is a topic you should look into.
Large community and free learning opportunities
Our concept of learning is not limited to the Academy. We also provide a platform for networking and discussion.
Our Discord server offers you the opportunity to exchange ideas and questions with our community. Through the questions of the other members you can also gain valuable experience and take new ideas for your project. In addition, you benefit from the following free learning opportunities:
Free Educational Playgrounds
Learn Data Engineering for free right in your browser: optimize Apache Spark to unlock peak performance, explore the fundamentals of GenAI with interactive embedding demos, build complete data pipelines from source to target, and experience how a streaming pipeline responds when resources run low, all in a hands on environment with zero setup.
Your free skills & tools guide
Check out our free 20 page guide. Explore the skills of Data Engineers, Data Architects and Machine Learning Engineers. Learn about data platforms Data Engineers are working on. Understand the tools we use, the piplines we build and which real world projects you can start with today.
