PCDE Career Guidance
Career Guidance
Preparing a Data Engineering Portfolio
In this section, you will learn how to create a professional portfolio for the data engineering industry. This week, your learning facilitator will host the second in a series of mentorship workshops, designed to introduce you to the broader field of data engineering. The Industry Guidance mentorship workshop will discuss the following topics:
- Developing an industry portfolio and share examples of successful portfolios
- Incorporating your work from this program into your GitHub portfolio to share with prospective employers
- How to approach industry-specific case interviews or technical evaluations
Here are some additional resources to supplement this module’s workshop focus:
- Facebook, Inc. “Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content.” Docusaurus. 2022. https://docusaurus.io/.
- GitHub. “Data-engineering-pipeline.” GitHub. https://github.com/topics/data-engineering-pipeline.
- Razevedo1994. “Data-engineering.” GitHub. https://github.com/razevedo1994/data-engineering.
- Sspaeti. “Building a Data Engineering Project in 20 Minutes.” Sspaeti. 9 March 2021. https://sspaeti.com/blog/data-engineering-project-in-twenty-minutes/.
- Vanhack Admin. “How to Build a GitHub Portfolio & Get Noticed by Recruiters.” Vanhack. 14 Dec. 2021.
After you have read through some of these resources, consider the following in your discussion post:
- How can you develop a strong industry portfolio?
- What content you want to include in that portfolio?
- How can you incorporate your work from this program into your GitHub portfolio to share with prospective employers?
- How can you use your portfolio to assist you with industry-specific case interviews or technical evaluations?
- Finally, find some examples online of strong data engineering portfolios and share them with your peers.
References
Web Links
- Facebook, Inc. “Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content.” Docusaurus. 2022. https://docusaurus.io/.
- GitHub. “Data-engineering-pipeline.” GitHub. https://github.com/topics/data-engineering-pipeline.
- Razevedo1994. “Data-engineering.” GitHub. https://github.com/razevedo1994/data-engineering.
- Sspaeti. “Building a Data Engineering Project in 20 Minutes.” Sspaeti. 9 March 2021. https://sspaeti.com/blog/data-engineering-project-in-twenty-minutes/.
- Vanhack Admin. “How to Build a GitHub Portfolio & Get Noticed by Recruiters.” Vanhack. 14 Dec. 2021.