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Business value mapping playbook: How to translate data work into executive language
The exact framework I use to get my data projects funded, noticed, and promoted
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Yordan Ivanov
Why stakeholders don’t care about your data engineering work (yet)
Because you’re solving the wrong problem and it’s costing you trust, visibility, and growth
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Yordan Ivanov
How to make your SQL 10x faster (and silence the “AI can’t help with that” crowd)
A 4-week deep dive into schema-aware prompts, query plans, and AI-assisted indexing, built for engineers who give a damn about performance.
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Yordan Ivanov

June 2025

How to hire your first data engineer (and when not to)
The playbook founders and eng leaders need before they make a $150k mistake
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Yordan Ivanov
Two massive mistakes that nearly ended my data career
What deleting prod and racking up $8k in AWS taught me about being a real data engineer
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Yordan Ivanov
Learn Snowflake in 90 days (without losing your mind)
A step-by-step playbook to become snowflake-proficient even if you're a beginner
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Yordan Ivanov
A battle-tested analytics stack for teams who need speed, clarity, and control
If you're building an analytics platform from scratch, here's the exact stack I'd use today. Tools, trade-offs, and practical lessons behind a modular…
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Yordan Ivanov
How to build a powerful data engineering portfolio website (even if you suck at frontend) in 4 weeks
This is the no-BS guide for data engineers who want to publish a legit tech portfolio that looks good and works. Without wasting time on design rabbit…
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Yordan Ivanov

May 2025

If I could start over, this is how I'd build our analytics platform
Here are some hard lessons I learned from the battle grounds of building and migrating data platform tooling
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Yordan Ivanov
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Data Engineering Migrations Are Hard
The brutal truth is that you’re likely to fail at migration projects unless you fix this
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Yordan Ivanov
Semantic Models: Data Modelling for the Modern Data Stack
How Semantic Models work and how will they change our work
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5 Red Flags of Mediocre Data Engineers
These 5 signs mean you may never become a senior engineer unless you address your flaws.
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