We talked about:

Jeff’s background
Getting feedback to become a better teacher
Going from engineering to teaching
Jeff on becoming a curriculum writer
Creating a curriculum that reinforces learning
Jeff on starting his own data engineering bootcamp
Shifting from teaching ML and data science to teaching data engineering
Making sure that students get hired
Screening bootcamp applicants
Knowing when it’s time to apply for jobs
The curriculum of JigsawLabs.io
The market demand of Spark, Kafka, and Kubernetes (or lack thereof)
Advice for data analysts that want to move into data engineering
The market demand of ETL/ELT and DBT (or lack thereof)
The importance of Python, SQL, and data modeling for data engineering roles
Interview expectations
How to get started in teaching
The challenges of being a one-person company
Teaching fundamentals vs the “shiny new stuff”
JigsawLabs.io
Finding Jeff online


Links: 

Jigsaw Labs: https://www.jigsawlabs.io/free
Teaching my mom to code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWwfTXGjBM
Getting a Data Engineering Job Webinar with Jeff Katz: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/getting-a-data-engineering-job-tickets-310270877547


MLOps Zoomcamp: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp
Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html
Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html