People to follow

There are hundreds of blogs or YouTube channels which contribute to the data and AI world. Here are my personal favourites that I follow and learn from. There has never been a better time to study the principles of Data & AI!

Data Engineering, Spark, Delta Lake, Databricks
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Zach Wilson An impressive data engineer with experience at Meta, Netflix, and Airbnb
Josue Bogran Databricks Product Advisory Board Member & MVP
Bryan Cafferky Brilliant YouTube channel to understand the principles of distributed systems
Maria Vechtomova Focus on MLOps, Tech Lead at Ahold Delhaize and Databricks MVP
Jaco van Gelder Staff data engineer at Ikea and Databricks MVP
Hubert Dudek Databricks expert, presenting new features and great tips
Jorrit Sandbrink Great data engineering content on Spark
All Databricks MVPs List of all Databricks MVP's
Data Engineering, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake
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Nick Akincilar Principal Solution Architect at Snowflake
Tomáš Sobotík Data Specialist, Auther, Snowflake Data Superhero
Sebastian Flak Data Engineer with a focus on data engineering insights, Snowflake Data Superhero
Gilberto Hernandez Lead Developer Advocate at Snowflake
Johannes Stich Enterprise Account Executive at Snowflake
All Snowflake Superheros List of all Snowflake Superheros
PowerBI & Fabric
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Marco Russo DAX & data modeling expert
Nikola Ilic Great content to learn Fabric including DP-600 & DP-700 certifications
Guilherme Joaquim Focuced on Fabric and PowerBI
Chris Webb DAX & data modeling expert, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft