My wife often says “what’s the cloud, why does everything have to go to the cloud” (which is kinda funny considering what I do). But for a lot of folks, the cloud is still an abstract concept and unless you have a job where you are forced into the cloud, you may be unsure where
There’s this Luke Combs song “Doin’ This” and I was thinking of it as I started to write, because this post kinda came about similarly. In it, Luke is talking about what he’d say if he were asked what he’d be doing, if he wasn’t “Doin’ This”? After I started as Slalom, I was talking
Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable discussion with members of the data analytics cohort at Nashville Software School. Technical bootcamps are awesome, and we need more people upskilling or changing careers. The roundtable was on Job Hunting and Finding a Mentor. I certainly don’t think I am an expert, but by
I think….I can maybe work in Python. And I do see the value of it to a Data Engineer. My last posts were somewhat (very?) self serving as I went through trying to learn more software engineering practices and specifically Python for my job with a web app startup. So, I wanted to circle back
This built off my previous post on what is a data engineer . Apparently, I am being reflective. Of the many of the posts I see, seem to stress the core idea of if you don’t know Python are you even a data engineer? For many people in the data space, they start their career
Since I last posted, I have changed jobs and done a considerable amount of reading, especially on the Data Engineering Subreddit. Both, driving me to think about the existential question of…”What is a Data Engineer.” As I pondered, I came to frame my thoughts as such. Is a Data Engineer: A Software Engineer who Focuses
In 2009, I had moved my whole family to take a job in Florida working in political advertising. In the odd years politics is a bit quieter and so I had a lot of free time and living in Jacksonville had discovered there was an active tech community, something Kentucky definitely did not have when