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The 1 hidden, brutal bottleneck costing senior data engineers influence and pay

Executives don’t remember details. They remember one line. If you don’t design that line up front, your wins get handed to Product, Sales, or a vendor while your career stays capped.
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How to Succeed in Data Engineering Interviews
Practical advice from Yordan, Head of Data Engineering
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Why you never get what you need in your data engineering career (and stay stuck at IC)
You’re not under-leveled. You’re under-recognized. This steals your visibility, blocks your promotion, and keeps you in the shadows.
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Yordan Ivanov
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How to sell your data engineering agenda + group enablement call, August 2025
This is how to get "yes" on the spot, no matter what you are asking for
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Yordan Ivanov
Ship idempotent reverse ETL in 60 minutes with a ruthless data engineering playbook
Spend 15 minutes a week in September and finish with a working reverse ETL from Snowflake to HubSpot through Hightouch with clean mapping, change…
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Yordan Ivanov
How ruthless prioritization got me a 40% raise and a head of data title I didn’t even want
If you’re drowning in work and still not getting noticed, this is what changes everything
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Yordan Ivanov
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Less than 24 hours to learn the doc that sells your ideas to execs
Stop getting stuck in maintenance. Start winning budgets, buy-in, and ownership over the work that matters to you.
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Yordan Ivanov
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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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Yordan Ivanov
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