Learn Data Engineering

The ultimate Data Engineering Academy. Teaching you everything you need to become a Data Engineer or add Data Engineering to your skillset. Proven system through my 10+ years of experience, over 2,000 students, over 50hours of video training material.

Founder

Udemy

I create free data & AI courses on Udemy for Data Engineers, Analysts, Scientists and beginners.

Course Author & Instructor

Kretz Media

At Kretz Media, we help innovative companies share their story and connect with the right audience. We specialize in creating authentic, high-impact content that makes complex topics understandable – and your brand unforgettable.

Whether it's a YouTube product demo, a livestream, a branded online course, or a strategic LinkedIn campaign – we turn your innovation into media that resonates.

LinkedIn

In this course you learn everything you need to know to design a NoSQL graph database and implement it in the cloud.

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Bosch Rexroth

Data Lab Team Lead

Data Engineering Team Lead

Data Engineer

SALT Solutions GmbH

SAP Consultant

Hey there! I'm Andreas Kretz, your dedicated guide to the exciting realm of Data Engineering and the founder of the Learn Data Engineering Academy. With over years of specialized coaching experience, I've had the pleasure of helping more than 2,000 students reach their goals in this essential field.

I bring over 8 years of experience in Corporate Data Science, 14+ years in Computer Science and IoT, and a robust background as a Data Engineering and Data Labs Team Lead. My journey in Data Engineering has garnered global recognition, including being named a LinkedIn Top Voice in Data Science & Analytics in 2018, 2019, and 2024.

Here's what I do:
➡️ Learn Data Engineering Academy
I’ve trained over 2,000 students through my Academy, offering 30+ in-depth courses and projects with over 55 hours of video content, covering everything you need to excel in Data Engineering.

➡️ Media Work
In 2024, I helped my media partners achieve significant brand awareness, resulting in 1.21 million post views on LinkedIn, 250,000 video views on YouTube, and 235,000 sent emails with a 40% open rate. My efforts have built a vast network of over 100,000 engineers and scientists.

➡️ YouTube
On my YouTube channel, I simplify complex Data Engineering concepts and share valuable insights from the Academy. Join me for livestreams with industry experts, workshops, tool reviews, and deep dives into the latest architectures. It’s your go-to source for staying ahead in the data world.

If you're passionate about Data Engineering, eager to learn, or curious about the latest tools and techniques, hit subscribe. Let's explore the world of Data Engineering together!

Andreas Kretz

RO FORWARD INDUSTRIES, LLC

* Establishment of legal entities
* Establishment of credit facility
* Budgeting
* Market niche analysis
* Evaluation current tooling and services in the AI/ML ecosystem
* Content creation
* Friction logging
* Record observations of market trends

Great Expectations

* Developer-facing thought leadership
* Community demos
* Usher of User-Product feedback loop
* Integration with ecosystem partners
* Developer support/assistance
* Content creation
* Customer on-boarding
* Product documentation

Senior Developer Advocate

Astronomer

* Team technical leadership
* Mentoring of junior members
* Architect, design and document solutions for the product
* Communicate with stakeholders
* Cross-functional leadership with QA, Docs, and Professional Services.

Senior Software Developer

VMware Tanzu

Senior Software Engineer

VMware

* Building next gen visual control plane: Tanzu Mission Control (Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies).
* Quad lead for new feature development
* Using React, TypeScript, ECMA, node, Clarity among others

Front End Software Engineer

Heptio

Software Engineer In Test

Field Engineer

Solutions Architect

IBM Blue Box

The Lead Technical Evangelist on the Evangelism and Community Team for Blue Box, an IBM company, serves as a catalyst, spokesperson, blogger and technical community leader.

Essential Duties: 
* Promote IBM Blue Box to IT Professionals and Enterprise Developers
* Represents IBM Blue Box at industry events, promotional events, and industry conferences
* Seller education and enablement.
* Pre- and post-sale customer education and enablement.

Technical Advocate, Office of the CTO

Infor

• Work with application development teams to ensure that their applications are designed properly for interacting with AWS
 • Work with application development teams and automation teams to design and write automation code for deploying and managing applications
 • Design, implement, and deploy cloud infrastructure services for AWS

Senior Cloud Architect

Rackspace

On top of attending conferences, developer outreach, developer-to-developer support and advocacy, I'm also responsible and accountable for developer.racksapce.com web properties. More recently I've been helping the team in the role of scrum master/sprint manager. I wear a lot of hats, and loving it.

Developer Advocate, Product Accountable, Sprint Manager

I'm part of a growing team in charge of reaching out and/or helping software developers work with the myriad of cloud services offered by Rackspace.

Developer Support Engineer

Info Tech, Inc.

Education
B.S. in Computer Science (May 2006. University of Florida)
GPA: 3.4/4.0

Work Experience
Software Developer/Technologist (09/2006 – Present). Info Tech, Inc.
			
Requirements Gathering

05/2010 - Present:
Co-lead small team constantly gathering requirements for our “production-ready” proof-of-concept projects for all tiers (i.e. backend, middleware, front end, usability, accessibility, etc.)

Research and Development:

09/2006 - 02/2007:
Co-pioneered and co-developed a web browser-based sealed bid entry, management and distribution.

05/2010 - Present:
Designed, architected and implemented a 3-Tier que-based file-format-converting application.
Pioneered proof-of-concept for a mobile web app for the adoption of AngularJS as our preferred mobile web client-side platform.
Architected, designed and implemented a syncing web service (and its RESTful API) between mobile apps and construction management systems and vice versa.

Application Development and Maintenance:

02/2007-05/2010:
Part of a 30-developer-plus team in charge of updating and porting a client-server application to a web application using C#.net/.Net 4/Entity Framework 4/MVC.net.
Multi-million-dollar product used by 40-plus state DOTs.
Test-driven development using Fitnesse and NUnit testing frameworks.
Required knowledge: C#.Net, NUnit, Java/EcmaScript, qunit, HTML,Fitnesse, Selenium, Oracle and DB2 databases, EntityFramework, MVC.net 2

Technical Skills:

JS/EcmaScript and related technologies (i.e. jQuery, AngularJS, Backbone, Node.js, CoffeeScript, Yeoman, etc.).
Python, Java, PHP, Ruby among others.

Tech Education Leadership:

Co-chair of PyCon 2014 (Python Conference) Tutorial Committee.
Pioneered in-house Technical Brown bag Seminar series demonstrating a wide array of technologies that could be of value to the company.
Maintain a technical blog with tutorials, reviews, personal project work, and opinion pieces.

See my resume for more details.

Software Developer/Technologist

I'm an AI/ML enthusiast and aspiring entrepreneur based in Gainesville, Florida. I have extensive experience in software development, customer-facing consulting and pre-sales engagements and developer advocacy and marketing. I'm also passionate about Open Source software and the communities surrounding them. I was honored to have been named PSF Fellow Summer 2017 cohort.

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