Build Your First Serverless Data Engineering Project

4.9 (19)

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10 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Learn fundamental data engineering skills, get hands-on experience with AWS, and build a fully functional data pipeline for your resume.

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Course overview

Data is the lifeblood of the AI revolution.

Data powers everything from advanced analytics to data science, machine learning, large language models, and generative AI.


But data is useless until it can be harnessed.


Data engineering is about building systems to do exactly that. Data Engineers wrangle, manipulate, and transform data so it can be used for training AI, generating predictive analytics, and making critical business decisions. Without data engineering, none of this is even possible.


In this course, you'll take your first steps with data engineering. You'll build a serverless data pipeline and apply the core principles of all good data engineering work: efficiency, automation, and scalability.


You'll gain hands-on experience with:


- Serverless data ingestion

- Automated workflow orchestration for ETL (extract, transform, load)

- Advanced SQL strategies for transforming and wrangling data

- Visualizing data for analytics and business intelligence

- Creating and automating data quality checks


Throughout the course, you'll leverage the power of cloud technologies using Amazon Web Services (AWS), the most popular cloud environment.


To be ready to take this course, you should have some SQL and Python knowledge.


For a full breakdown of who the course is for and what you'll learn, check out the course schedule and syllabus below.

Who this course is for

01

Data Analysts + Business Intelligence Analysts


You're looking to expand your skillset by learning Data Engineering and AWS skills.

02

Junior Data Engineers + Data Engineers


You've got some experience already, but you're new to AWS and looking to learn more.

03

This course is not for:


Experienced/Senior Data Engineers, AWS experts, or people with no previous coding experience.

What you’ll get out of this course

Build a fully functional data engineering project from start to finish

Build a project of your own to perform data engineering in a hands-on way.

Data engineering principles and frameworks

Gain proficiency in data engineering concepts like data ingestion, workflow orchestration, data transformation, and data quality testing.

Explore a variety of AWS services

Gain experience with many of the major AWS services used for serverless data engineering like Kinesis, Lambda, S3, Glue, and Athena.

Advanced SQL strategies for transforming data

Step-by-step examples of powerful SQL patterns for essential data engineering transform work.

Showcase your new knowledge

Learn effective ways to showcase your project to prospective employers and talk about it in future job interviews.

Personalized guidance every step of the way

New technologies can be challenging. As part of this live cohort course, you'll get personalized assistance when you need it.

This course includes

6 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

37 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

1 projects to apply learning

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Aug 19—Aug 25

    Aug

    20

    Session 1: Serverless Data Ingestion 101

    Tue 8/2012:00 AM—2:00 AM (UTC)

    Aug

    22

    Session 2: Scaling and Automating Data Ingestion

    Thu 8/2212:00 AM—2:00 AM (UTC)

    Aug

    23

    Session 3: Orchestrating Data Engineering Workflows

    Fri 8/2312:00 AM—2:00 AM (UTC)

    Aug

    25

    Optional: Sunday Office Hours

    Sun 8/258:00 PM—10:00 PM (UTC)

    Course Introduction

    3 items • Free preview

    Serverless Data Ingestion 101

    5 items

    Scaling and Automating Data Ingestion

    5 items

    Orchestrating Data Engineering Workflows

    6 items

    Project milestones for the week

    1 item

Week 2

Aug 26—Aug 28

    Aug

    27

    Session 4: Visualizing Data for Analytics and Business Intelligence

    Tue 8/2712:00 AM—2:00 AM (UTC)

    Aug

    29

    Session 5: Showcasing Your Project

    Thu 8/2912:00 AM—2:00 AM (UTC)

    Visualizing Data for Analytics and Business Intelligence

    5 items

    Showcasing Your Project

    4 items

    Project milestones for the week

    1 item

Post-course

    Virtual Gallery Walk

    2 items

Bonus

    SQL Strategies for Data Engineering

    6 items

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Meet your instructor

David Freitag

David Freitag

David is a Senior Data Engineer at American Family Insurance, a top 10 auto insurance company in the Fortune 500.


David is a career changer who started his professional life as a high school teacher before pivoting to Data Engineering.


Over the last few years, he has also spent hundreds of hours tutoring students in Python, SQL, and Data Engineering skills.


If you'd like to learn these skills too, this course is for you.

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Course schedule

6-8 hours per week

  • Main Course Sessions

    8:00 PM - 10:00 (EDT)

    Week 1: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday

    Week 2: Monday and Wednesday


    After each lesson, there will be optional time to complete project work and get personalized assistance (office hours).


    Office hours typically go until 10:30pm EDT (30 minutes).

  • Optional Sunday Office Hours

    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (EDT)

    Get additional assistance with your project and ask questions during optional Sunday afternoon office hours.

  • Miss a class?

    Lessons will be recorded

    If you can't make a session, or you want to go back and rewatch a lesson, videos will be posted following each lesson.

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Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

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Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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