Prerequisites

No prior data engineering experience required. This course is designed to take you from beginner to job-ready.

Before starting this course, you should have:

Basic Technical Skills

• Command line basics. Comfortable running commands in a terminal.
• Basic programming concepts. Variables, functions, loops.
• Python knowledge. Basic programming skills in Python or ability to pick it quickly.
• SQL fundamentals. Understanding of basic SQL queries.
• Git basics. Cloning repositories, making commits.

Time Commitment

• 7 weeks for course modules
• 2-3 weeks for the final project
• Plan for 10-15 hours per week

You can also see here (2024) and here (2025) how much time the studends of the previous cohorts spent on the course.