Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What this guide is, and who it is for This is a six-month plan for one specific person: a working data engineer or analytics engineer who writes production pipelines, owns models in a warehouse, and has been quietly wondering whether the AI wave is passing them by. If you maintain Airflow or Dagster DAGs, write dbt models with tests, argue about late-arriving facts, chase down a stale partition at eleven at night or explain a warehouse bill to a finance business partner, this is written for you. The argument is simple and it runs against the usual career-change advice. Most guides tell career switchers that they are starting from nearly zero and must build a foundation. You are not, and you must not. The unglamorous discipline you already have — making a scheduled system run reliably,…
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