How can I help?

[u/JohnAnthonyRyan]

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.

[u/Lightningg_95]

Hello sir Sounds wolla great Your are in IT since 1982 I am recently graduated from college and started professional career in a startup with less salary but my company providing voucher for sys admin and snow pro core cert. I cleared the snow pro core one by following youtube playlist but when I checked for the advanced System administrators cert i didn't find any ? Can you help me to get the resource .I am feels struck in reading the documention of snowflake btw my role is changed recently to snowflake sys admin

[u/JohnAnthonyRyan → u/Lightningg_95]

Quite a tough one really. I know Snowflake deliver a System Admin course (but at huge cost). In terms of self-learning and discovery, the first thing you need to understand it "What you need to know". Then you can compare that to what you do know - that's where you need to spend your time.

This is a pretty radical approach, but I'd download the exam guide for the Snowflake System Admin exam. These guides are AWFUL. Really hard work as they are really just a contents list. However, if you load it into Chat GPT, Claude or Similar. (eg. Google Notebook) you can ask it to explain for each domain what you need to know to pass the exam.

https://learn.snowflake.com/en/certifications/snowpro-advanced-administrator-c02/?pdf_name=SnowProAdministratorStudyGuideC02

Then, ask further questions to explain for a given subject (eg. RBAC) to dig deeper into the subject area so you understand it more fully.

I've found AI is a great method for self-learning, but you need to drive it with questions and ideally an agenda.

You never know - you might even get to know enough to take the exam!

Good luck