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15–20 PROJECTS / PRACTICAL ENGINEERING

Build the experience.
Then explain the work.

Complete 15–20 projects around market-relevant coding requirements and Data Engineering scenarios. With mentorship, work through live projects step by step.

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Your project portfolio

15–20 projects.
More than a list of tools.

The examples below show project themes within the broader learning journey.

01 / INGESTION & TRANSFORMATION
SQLPythonCloud storage

Source-to-warehouse pipeline

Read from files, APIs or databases. Transform and validate the data, then load it into a warehouse.

SQLPythonCloud storage
What you should be able to show
  • Working code and a clear explanation of the requirement
  • Data checks and evidence that the output is correct
  • Architecture and project documentation
  • Errors encountered, fixes and technical trade-offs
02 / BIG DATA & LAKEHOUSE
PySparkDatabricksDelta Lake

Spark and lakehouse project

Work with batch and streaming concepts, schema changes, historical data and governed analytical tables.

PySparkDatabricksDelta Lake
What you should be able to show
  • Working code and a clear explanation of the requirement
  • Data checks and evidence that the output is correct
  • Architecture and project documentation
  • Errors encountered, fixes and technical trade-offs
03 / WORKFLOW RELIABILITY
AirflowPythonData quality

Orchestration and observability

Schedule tasks, validate data, handle retries and investigate failed pipeline runs.

AirflowPythonData quality
What you should be able to show
  • Working code and a clear explanation of the requirement
  • Data checks and evidence that the output is correct
  • Architecture and project documentation
  • Errors encountered, fixes and technical trade-offs
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Learn through the work

Live project guidance.
One step at a time.

In one-to-one mentorship, your mentor guides your implementation, explains difficult concepts and helps you work through issues. You build the project and learn the reasoning behind it.

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Interview-ready evidence

Show what you built.
Explain why it works.

01 / REQUIREMENT

Understand the problem.

Describe the source, expected output and coding requirements before selecting the tools.

02 / IMPLEMENTATION

Work through the code.

Build the pipeline, investigate failures and understand the decisions you make.

03 / EXPLANATION

Present your own work.

Walk through your architecture, quality checks, results and lessons in a technical interview.

Domain-based capstone examples

Different industries.
The same engineering discipline.

Build 15–20 projects across industry scenarios. The 18 examples below illustrate how the portfolio can be structured; the final project mix and cloud stack are agreed for your learning path.

01 / HEALTHCARE

Healthcare

Patient-visit analytics lake

Combine synthetic appointment, visit and hospital reference data; standardize identifiers and dates, check duplicates and build visit/utilization tables.

Claims processing pipeline

Join synthetic claims, provider and policy data; track rejected records, reconciliation totals and processing status.

SQLPythonS3GlueAthena

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

02 / BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Banking & financial services

Transaction reconciliation

Ingest sample account and transaction feeds, remove duplicates and reconcile opening balance, movements and closing balance.

Payment-event monitoring

Process simulated payment events, handle late arrivals and produce time-windowed transaction summaries.

PythonSQLKafka or KinesisRedshift

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

03 / RETAIL & E-COMMERCE

Retail & e-commerce

Sales and inventory warehouse

Combine orders, returns, product and stock feeds; build sales facts and product/store dimensions for inventory reporting.

Clickstream-to-order funnel

Process browsing and checkout events; connect sessions with orders and create conversion-ready datasets.

PySparkdbtSnowflakeAirflow

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

04 / LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN

Logistics & supply chain

Shipment tracking pipeline

Combine dispatch, scan and delivery events; deduplicate scans and calculate delivery time and delayed-shipment datasets.

Fleet telemetry lake

Ingest simulated vehicle location and sensor events, validate timestamps and aggregate route and vehicle activity.

Event HubsADLS Gen2DatabricksSQL

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

05 / MANUFACTURING & IOT

Manufacturing & IoT

Equipment telemetry processing

Transform sample sensor readings into machine-level time series, flag missing readings and prepare monitoring tables.

Production and quality data mart

Join production batches, inspection results and downtime logs to build traceable yield and defect summaries.

PySparkDelta LakeAzure Data Factory

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

06 / TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Telecommunications

Usage and billing reconciliation

Process sample call/usage records and plan data, validate usage totals and create subscriber-level billing summaries.

Network-event aggregation

Group simulated network events by location and time window; handle duplicate events and delayed delivery.

KafkaPySparkSQLAirflow

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

07 / INSURANCE

Insurance

Policy and premium warehouse

Model sample policies, customers and premium schedules; preserve policy changes and build renewal reporting tables.

Claims lifecycle analytics

Track synthetic claim submissions and status changes to produce processing-time and outstanding-claim datasets.

PythonSQLS3Snowflake

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

08 / MEDIA & DIGITAL PRODUCTS

Media & digital products

Subscription activity pipeline

Join sample subscription, payment and usage events to create active-user and renewal datasets.

Content engagement lakehouse

Transform simulated viewing events into session and content-level engagement tables with late-event handling.

PySparkDatabricksDelta LakeAirflow

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

09 / EDUCATION & LEARNING PLATFORMS

Education & learning platforms

Learner progress warehouse

Combine synthetic course, enrollment and assessment data to build completion and progress datasets.

Learning-event streaming

Process sample lesson events, validate ordering and build daily participation summaries.

PythonSQLAzure Data FactorySynapse

Deliver: source contract, working pipeline, quality checks, analytical tables and an architecture walkthrough.

Training projects use public, synthetic or approved anonymized datasets. “Live project” means guided implementation and problem-solving; these examples do not imply access to a client production system.

Architecture references behind these learning scenarios

Our illustrative project briefs draw on published healthcare, retail, financial-services and fleet/IoT architecture patterns. They are training scenarios, not claims of client projects.

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