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The hidden career risk of being a "helpful" data engineer

Every time you say yes to a quick favor, you give away the projects that could actually move your career forward. The real skill is knowing which work deserves your time.
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The hidden career risk of being a "helpful" data engineer
Every time you say yes to a quick favor, you give away the projects that could actually move your career forward. The real skill is knowing which work…
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Yordan Ivanov
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Prioritization playbook: the one framework to filter data work by business value
Stop drowning in requests and start choosing work that delivers real impact, builds your influence, and gets noticed where it matters.
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Unfiltered data engineering tasks inflate cloud costs, bury your wins, and stall promotions. Learn why one intake rule is your path to visibility.
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A crash course in business fluency for data engineers who want to lead teams, influence decisions, and stop getting lost in executive meetings.
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Stop talking about tables. Start talking about revenue, cost & risk
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Data Engineering Migrations Are Hard
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No one gets hired for clean pipelines
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Live Group Coaching July 2025: Real talk, big wins, no fluff
Here talked about transitioning from analyst to data engineer and from senior to team lead. We also discussed salary conversations and much more.
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Business value mapping playbook: How to translate data work into executive language
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Two exciting updates for next week you won’t want to miss
A live call to solve your career challenges and a new collab to help you ace interviews
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
Prioritization playbook: the one framework to filter data work by business value
Stop drowning in requests and start choosing work that delivers real impact, builds your influence, and gets noticed where it matters.
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
Why you’re drowning in reactive data engineering work (and losing your shot at promotion)
Unfiltered data engineering tasks inflate cloud costs, bury your wins, and stall promotions. Learn why one intake rule is your path to visibility.
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
4 awkward stakeholder conversations you have to master if you want more money and respect
Learn how to talk like a leader, even if you’d rather hide in your code
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
No one gets hired for clean pipelines
If your projects don’t map to business value, you’re replaceable. Here’s how to make your work un-ignorable
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
1:07:29
Live Group Coaching July 2025: Real talk, big wins, no fluff
Here talked about transitioning from analyst to data engineer and from senior to team lead. We also discussed salary conversations and much more.
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
2
The 3 business metrics every senior data engineer hould know
A crash course in business fluency for data engineers who want to lead teams, influence decisions, and stop getting lost in executive meetings.
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
2
Stop talking about tables. Start talking about revenue, cost & risk
Your technical output doesn’t make you valuable. Framing it in business outcomes does.
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
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live group coaching for Pro members
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Business value mapping playbook: How to translate data work into executive language
The exact framework I use to get my data projects funded, noticed, and promoted
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
Why stakeholders don’t care about your data engineering work (yet)
Because you’re solving the wrong problem and it’s costing you trust, visibility, and growth
 • 
Yordan Ivanov
How to make your SQL 10x faster (and silence the “AI can’t help with that” crowd)
A 4-week deep dive into schema-aware prompts, query plans, and AI-assisted indexing, built for engineers who give a damn about performance.
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Yordan Ivanov
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