A premium cohort academy · since 2022
Pivot into
data engineering.
Taught live.
Eight weeks of synchronous instruction, taught by a working operator who built the pipelines you'll learn to build. Four 8-week cohorts a year. Application required — we keep cohorts at 120 students on purpose.
Your instructor
Jordan Reyes
Former Senior Data Engineer at three SaaS startups (Series B–D). Teaching since 2022.
1,200+
Alumni placed
78%
Job-placement rate
+$38K
Median comp delta
4.2mo
Median months to offer
8 modules · 64 hours
The curriculum in eight weeks.
Every module is paired with a real deliverable — something you finish, push to GitHub, and discuss with the instructor. By week eight you have a portfolio you can send to a hiring manager.
Full module breakdown →Week 1 · 8h
Pipeline Foundations
Deliverable: Local dev environment + a working dbt-core project running on a sample schema
Week 2 · 9h
SQL for Data Engineers
Deliverable: Five end-to-end SQL exercises against the cohort warehouse + peer-graded review
Weeks 3-4 · 16h
dbt Modeling
Deliverable: A dbt project modeling a real e-commerce data warehouse — staging through marts, tests passing, docs deployed
Week 5 · 8h
Orchestration with Airflow
Deliverable: A 4-DAG project orchestrating dbt runs + sensor patterns + backfill workflow
Week 6 · 8h
Snowflake + Warehouse Architecture
Deliverable: Cost-tagged warehouse setup with monitoring queries + a 1-page architecture review for your interview portfolio
3 more modules: Pipelines in Production, Career Transition, Capstone Review
See all 8 modules →Two ways in
Live cohort, or self-paced.
The cohort is the flagship — eight weeks of synchronous teaching, peer review, and instructor office hours. The self-paced version is a downstream of the cohort: same modules, no live sessions.
Live Cohort
$1,200
Eight weeks. Live.
- + Synchronous Zoom sessions, twice weekly
- + Slack community with cohort + alumni
- + Instructor office hours every week
- + Capstone graded by instructor
- + Career-transition module + alumni job referrals
- + Application required · 120 seats
Self-Paced
$400
Same modules. Your tempo.
- + All 8 modules, recorded
- + Same exercises + same rubric
- + AI study assistant scoped to course content
- + Async-only — no live sessions, no peer review
- + Lifetime access · upgrade to a cohort any time
- + Open enrollment · 200+ active learners
What's underneath the academy
The cohort experience is the surface. The system underneath is the product.
1
Application + enrollment funnel
Inquiry → application review (1-3 days) → Stripe payment → first-day onboarding email. No open-enrollment flood; we keep cohort quality high.
2
Member portal
Every student sees their cohort schedule, progress against curriculum, assignment submissions, instructor feedback, and the alumni community in one place.
3
Curriculum versioning
When Module 4 gets rebuilt for the new dbt features, the change tracks against existing cohorts — students see exactly what's new.
4
AI study assistant
A chat scoped to course content. Refuses off-topic questions, cites the specific module, never invents APIs. Works alongside human teaching, never replaces it.
5
TA workspace, role-scoped
Two part-time TAs log in scoped to current cohort: grading + office hours only. Never see payment data, future cohort planning, or alumni roster. Adding a third TA is an invite, not a development ticket.
6
Outcomes analytics
Funnel + completion + job-placement tracked end-to-end. The numbers on the Outcomes page are the same numbers I run my business on.
Spring 2026 cohort applications close in 12 days.
36 of 120 seats remaining. Application review takes 1-3 business days.