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, Databricks
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Zach Wilson An impressive data engineer with experience at Meta, Netflix, and Airbnb
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
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