Data Engineering Zoomcamp 2026 Pre-Course Live Q&A

Curious about the Data Engineering Zoomcamp? Join us for a live, interactive Q&A session with course creator Alexey Grigorev and get all your questions answered before the new cohort begins on January 12, 2026.

What You’ll Learn During the Session

Alexey will walk you through:

Course curriculum: An overview of the topics, tools, and real-world projects you'll work on
Assignments and grading: How homework and peer reviews are structured
Getting help and feedback: How support works during the course and in the community
Portfolio-building projects: Which hands-on projects will you build during the course to showcase your skills
Learning with the community: How to engage with 79k+ learners in the DataTalks.Club Slack

Alexey will also share tips on how to follow the material effectively, pace your learning, and stay motivated throughout the course. You’ll get a chance to meet the instructor, learn more about the course structure, and ask your questions.

Thinking About Data Engineering Zoomcamp?

Data Engineering Zoomcamp is a free 9-week course covering infrastructure setup, workflow orchestration, data warehousing, analytics, batch processing, and streaming. The last three weeks focus on a capstone project in which you'll build an end-to-end data pipeline using a dataset of your choice, demonstrating data lake and warehouse solutions with documentation. Projects are peer-reviewed by fellow participants. The new cohort of the Data Engineering Zoomcamp starts on January 12, 2026. You can join by registering here.

About the Speaker

Alexey Grigorev is the Founder of DataTalks.Club and creator of the Zoomcamp series. Alexey is a seasoned software and ML engineer with over 10 years in engineering and 6+ years in machine learning. He has deployed large-scale ML systems at companies like OLX Group and Simplaex, authored several technical books including Machine Learning Bookcamp, and is a Kaggle Master with a 1st place finish in the NIPS'17 Criteo Challenge.

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