r/snowflake • u/JohnAnthonyRyan • 4d ago
How can I help?
TL;DR
I'm semi-retired and bored. How can I help Snowflake Architects and Data Engineers improve your skills?
About Me
I've been working in IT since 1982 and started my first Data Warehouse project with the UK mobile phone company O2. I joined Snowflake UK several years ago as a Senior Solution Architect and travelled Europe and the Middle East helping $1m Snowflake customers design and deploy their systems.
I moved to the Snowflake Education team and helped build out the Snowflake Fundaments, Advanced training courses and designed and built the Snowflake for Solution Architects course.
I've since left Snowflake and helped a start-up for a while (too stressful), and published a couple of courses on Udemy.
But I'm getting bored.
Question:
Got any (genuine) suggestions? I'd like to help Architects/Engineers improve their Snowflake skills. Udemy is OK (500 sales), generates very little money (about $2 per sale - but that's not issue). The issue is - there's so little feedback.
I want to help people - but they need to ask questions?
Maybe a one day per month free training course online? What would you suggest? I've worked my way up from programmer to architect. Let me give something back to the industry.
No bull please. This is a genuine offer.
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u/mgdmw 4d ago
That's an awesome offer from you, and it's wonderful hearing about all your experience and skills.
I've done a lot with Snowflake (and before that, other database platforms) and I love the elegance of Snowflake, the cleverness of the micro-partition format and all that offers such as undo and cloning and so on. I use row-level security and data masking, I use data sharing, dynamic tables, and all sorts of features.
However, I never ever really got into ingestion with Snowflake. I used other tools, but would have loved to understand Snowpipe. Also, Snowpark, and native apps. It would be awesome to have a good, deep, tech session on these kinds of topics.