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Why Senior Data Engineers Lose Their Velocity (Even When Their Skills Improve)
The hidden shift from building systems to navigating the people around them.
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Own it
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Strategy-first tooling
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How great communicators win decisions (even with worse ideas)
Learn the simple shift experienced leaders use to turn every idea into a business win, so your work finally gets the support it deserves.
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Stakeholder alignment playbook: Framework to structure high-stakes conversations
The behind-the-scenes strategy I use to avoid surprise rejections, scope bloat, and political landmines in big data projects
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High stakes, low structure
Why important meetings fall apart, and how it keeps data engineers stuck, small, and sidelined.
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Before you build
Why the smartest data engineers still build the wrong thing, and how to never do it again.
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Talk More. Earn More.
Because nobody rewards invisible effort.
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Why Senior Data Engineers Lose Their Velocity (Even When Their Skills Improve)
The hidden shift from building systems to navigating the people around them.
Nov 26
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Data Professionals Are F*ing Delusional
Why Python, SQL, and a few Airflow DAGs won’t save your job search anymore.
Nov 24
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Building Data Teams 101: How to Know Exactly When to Hire Your Next Data Engineer
A practical look at the real signals leaders need to follow instead of panic, ego, or headcount goals.
Nov 21
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Workshop: Cross-team data project management with RACI
Stop guessing who needs to do what and ensure you deliver the right project on time
Nov 14
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AI: friend or foe?
Feeling anxious about AI? You’re not alone. Here’s how I answered the 2 scariest questions this month.
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Data Professionals Are F*ing Delusional
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A practical look at the real signals leaders need to follow instead of panic, ego, or headcount goals.
Nov 21
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How great communicators win decisions (even with worse ideas)
Learn the simple shift experienced leaders use to turn every idea into a business win, so your work finally gets the support it deserves.
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Black Friday is Here
I wasn’t going to do this
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Workshop: Cross-team data project management with RACI
Stop guessing who needs to do what and ensure you deliver the right project on time
Nov 14
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Yordan Ivanov
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Stakeholder alignment playbook: Framework to structure high-stakes conversations
The behind-the-scenes strategy I use to avoid surprise rejections, scope bloat, and political landmines in big data projects
Nov 12
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Yordan Ivanov
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High stakes, low structure
Why important meetings fall apart, and how it keeps data engineers stuck, small, and sidelined.
Nov 5
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Yordan Ivanov
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Own it
A practical track to define scope, set SLOs, wire alerts, enforce RBAC and retention, and package real evidence of senior-level impact
Nov 3
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Yordan Ivanov
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Before you build
Why the smartest data engineers still build the wrong thing, and how to never do it again.
Oct 31
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Yordan Ivanov
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Why projects die
The 5 killers that tank enterprise migrations (and how to dodge every single one before they burn your team, budget, and sanity)
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AI: friend or foe?
Feeling anxious about AI? You’re not alone. Here’s how I answered the 2 scariest questions this month.
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