Certifications
As a dedicated Data Engineer, I continually strive to expand my knowledge and stay current with the latest technologies and best practices in the field. The certifications listed below demonstrate my commitment to professional growth and validate my expertise in various aspects of data engineering.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Issued: 2022-*
Earning the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and expertise in integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems into structures that are suitable for building analytics solutions. Candidates have a solid knowledge of data processing languages, such as SQL, Python, or Scala, and they need to understand parallel processing and data architecture patterns.
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Professional Data Engineer
Issued: 2020-*
A Professional Data Engineer makes data usable and valuable for others by collecting, transforming, and publishing data. This individual evaluates and selects products and services to meet business and regulatory requirements. A Professional Data Engineer creates and manages robust data processing systems. This includes the ability to design, build, deploy, monitor, maintain, and secure data processing workloads.
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AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued: 2022-*
Earners of this certification have an in-depth understanding of how to use AWS services for data collection, storage, processing, and visualization. They demonstrated the ability to leverage AWS analytics tools for deriving business value from data. Badge owners are able to leverage various AWS services to manipulate collections of data for organizations of all sizes.
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Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
Databricks
Issued: 2023-*
Earners of the Data Engineer Associate certification have demonstrated an ability to perform basic data engineering tasks using Databricks and its capabilities.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Issued: 2022-*
Earning the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge required to build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. Candidates understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
Microsoft
Issued: 2022-*
Earning the Azure Data Scientist Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to apply Azure’s machine learning techniques to train, evaluate, and deploy models that solve business problems.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Issued: 2022-*
Earning the Azure Database Administrator Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to implement and manage the operational aspects of cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions built on Microsoft Azure data services and Microsoft SQL Server. The Azure Database Administrator uses a variety of methods and tools to perform day-to-day operations, including applying knowledge of using T-SQL for administrative management purposes.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty
Microsoft
Issued: 2022-*
Earning Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty certification validates subject matter expertise in designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data. Candidates design and implement data models, data distribution, loading data into an Azure Cosmos DB database, and optimizing and maintaining the solution. They have solid knowledge and experience developing apps for Azure and working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies.
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Professional Cloud Database Engineer
Google Cloud
Issued: 2022-*
A Professional Cloud Database Engineer is a database professional with two years of Google Cloud experience and five years of overall database and IT experience. The Professional Cloud Database Engineer designs, creates, manages, and troubleshoots Google Cloud databases used by applications to store and retrieve data. The Professional Cloud Database Engineer should be comfortable translating business and technical requirements into scalable and cost-effective database solutions.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Issued: 2021-*
Earning the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification demonstrates subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security. Candidates have advanced experience and knowledge across IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance.
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Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Issued: 2022-*
Professional Cloud Architects enable organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. With a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud, they design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives.
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued: 2023-*
Earners of this certification have an extensive understanding of designing technical strategies to accomplish specific business goals. They demonstrated the ability to balance best practices and trade-offs based on business context. Badge owners are able to design solutions across multiple platforms and providers.
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Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Issued: 2021-*
Earning the DevOps Engineer Expert certification demonstrates the ability to combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives. DevOps professionals streamline delivery by optimizing practices, improving communications and collaboration, and creating automation.
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Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Google Cloud
Issued: 2024-*
Professional Cloud DevOps Engineers implement processes throughout the systems development lifecycle using Google-recommended methodologies and tools. They build and deploy software and infrastructure delivery pipelines, optimize and maintain production systems and services, and balance service reliability with delivery speed.
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CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation
Issued: 2024-*
Earners of this designation demonstrated the skills, knowledge and competencies to perform the responsibilities of a Kubernetes Application Developer. Earners are able to define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable applications and tools in Kubernetes. The skills and knowledge demonstrated by earners include Core Concepts, Configuration, Multi-Container Pods, Observability, Pod Design, Services & Networking, State Persistence.
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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp
Issued: 2023-*
Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform. They understand and can utilize Terraform according to the certification objectives. Additionally, they understand why enterprises choose to extend Terraform Open Source with Terraform Enterprise to solve business critical objectives.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
Issued: 2021-*
Earning Azure Developer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge to design, build, test, and maintain cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure. Candidates participate in all phases of cloud development from requirements definition and design, to development, deployment, and maintenance.