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My Journey as a Data Engineer

A running log of real problems from day-to-day work: incidents, dead ends, things that broke in production, and the small realizations that changed how I approach the job. Less polished than the technical series, more like notes from the field.

  1. Sep 15, 2026

    Going from Software Engineering Skills to Data Engineering

    I spent years as a backend developer following SOLID, DRY, and clean architecture. Then I moved into Data Engineering and quietly stopped being a software engineer. Here's how that happened, and what it took to notice.

    Data EngineeringSoftware EngineeringCareerPySpark
  2. Oct 4, 2026

    Building a Text-To-SQL Agent from Scratch: Dealing with messy data and metrics

    Part 1 of a diary series. I joined a company as a data engineer who knew Spark and little about the business, and this is the problem I found, the research I did and the plan for an agent that answers my team's data questions.

    Text-to-SQLSemantic LayerData Engineeringdbt