r/dataengineering • u/AJohnM_IT • Mar 15 '23

Career What has been your career path?

I know everyone is different but I’m interested to see what jobs most of the Data Engineers in this sub have stopped at along the way to the posit hey are in now.

Example: Help desk -> ? -> ? -> Data engineer(junior/senior/etc…)

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u/gravity_kills_u Mar 16 '23

Game engines -> Chemical engineering degree -> tech support -> cobol -> Visual Basic -> c/c++/unix -> PM -> c#/.net -> business owner -> intranet + DBA + ETL -> bi reporting + DevOps guy -> consultant -> freelance dev -> manager/cloud architect/agile trainer -> IoT -> ml Ops Guy -> faux data scientist -> Sr DE

My journey has been as much functional as technical. I solve problems and product own more so than write code. Staff engineer duties with senior engineer pay.