Proof of Work > Certifications

What actually gets you hired as a Data Engineer (spoiler: not another badge).

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Imagine you're a hiring manager.

You've seen 97 resumes this week.

80 of them list “AWS Certified.”
3 of them list “Google Cloud Professional.”
And then… you open one that says:

“Built an automated pipeline to clean product data, scheduled it using Airflow, and visualized the output in a dashboard. Full repo and walkthrough here → [GitHub Link]”

Which one are you messaging first?

Exactly.

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