# The Rise of the AI Data Engineer

> Master the skills needed to be a great AI data engineer on Databricks.

- Web page and enrollment: https://learn.dataexpert.io/program/the-one-week-beginners-databricks-boot-camp-7129
- Price: Free
- Starts: 2026-08-03
- Ends: 2026-08-10
- Content: 7 video lessons (3 h 52 min)
- Academy: DataExpert.io Community Academy

## About this program

Master the skills needed to be a great AI data engineer on Databricks.

## What you'll learn

- How to build basic pipelines with Databricks
- How to use Databricks AI features
- An end-to-end capstone project
- 3 Live classes with Zach

## Prerequisites

- You are eager to learn Databricks

## Skills

Airflow, Algorithms, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, APIs, AWS, CI/CD, Cloud Platforms, Communication, Databricks, Data Modeling, Data Structures, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Delta Lake, Docker, ETL/ELT, Flink, GCP, Git, Hadoop, Kafka, Leadership, LLMs, MLOps, MySQL, NLP, Postgres, Problem Solving, Python, PyTorch, SQL, Statistics, Tableau, Trino

## Instructors

- Zach Wilson — Founder at DataExpert.io

## Included programs

- [Boot Camp: Community Edition](https://learn.dataexpert.io/program/free-community-boot-camp.md)

## Curriculum

### Intro to Databricks

- [Getting Started with Databricks Free Edition](https://learn.dataexpert.io/lesson/getting-started-with-databricks-free-edition.md) — 17 min

### Day 1: Lakebase and Databricks Apps

- [Setting up your Databricks App and Lakebase](https://learn.dataexpert.io/lesson/setting-up-your%3Ddatabricks%3Dapp-and-lakebase.md)
- [Setting up CDF in Paid Databricks in 13 minutes](https://learn.dataexpert.io/lesson/lakebase-cdc-to-scd-type-2-in-13-minutes.md) — 13 min

### Day 2: Context Engineering and Vector Databases

- [Processing Unstructured Data with Vectors Lecture](https://learn.dataexpert.io/lesson/processingunstructureddatawithvectors-12781.md) — 52 min
- [Processing Vectors with PGVector and with HuggingFace  ](https://learn.dataexpert.io/lesson/processing-news-articles-to-vectors-with-huggingface.md) — 32 min

### Day 3: End-to-end AI Agents with Agent Bricks

- [Creating your first Agent with AgentBricks](https://learn.dataexpert.io/lesson/creatingyourfirstagentwithagentbricks-0a6b8.md) — 1 h 58 min