https://edwardplata.com Edward Plata is a data engineer in New York building lakehouses, streaming pipelines and platforms other engineers can safely build on. en https://edwardplata.com/blog/what-30-days-of-data-engineering-threads-sayhttps://edwardplata.com/blog/what-30-days-of-data-engineering-threads-saySun, 8 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000I ran a research script over 30 days of Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub and dev.to posts about data engineering. These are the five arguments I found, what the evidence can carry, and what I will test myself. https://edwardplata.com/blog/every-number-on-my-resume-has-to-survive-one-questionhttps://edwardplata.com/blog/every-number-on-my-resume-has-to-survive-one-questionThu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000I audited my resume the way I audit a pipeline: every claim is a row, every number needs provenance, and a build check decides what is allowed on the public copy. https://edwardplata.com/blog/a-resume-review-checklist-for-data-engineershttps://edwardplata.com/blog/a-resume-review-checklist-for-data-engineersWed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000The checks I now run on any data engineering resume, mine included: the six-second read, the X-Y-Z bullet, scope over tools, one claim per number, and what an ATS really does. https://edwardplata.com/blog/what-73-autonomous-experiments-taught-mehttps://edwardplata.com/blog/what-73-autonomous-experiments-taught-meTue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000An unattended research loop on Numerai ran 73 experiments and kept almost none. Why that was mostly the loop working, and the places it quietly wasn't. https://edwardplata.com/blog/from-a-rented-k3s-node-to-a-nas-in-the-closethttps://edwardplata.com/blog/from-a-rented-k3s-node-to-a-nas-in-the-closetTue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000What running my own media, photos and passwords taught me: healthy is not working, a check that cannot fail is not a check, and a backup is a restore. https://edwardplata.com/blog/a-silver-layer-and-an-agent-over-nyc-open-datahttps://edwardplata.com/blog/a-silver-layer-and-an-agent-over-nyc-open-dataTue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Why my silver layer holds no source rows, how 280 bytes from 21.9M rows changed the design, and what it took to make a free-tier agent answer correctly. https://edwardplata.com/blog/i-treated-my-job-search-as-a-data-warehousehttps://edwardplata.com/blog/i-treated-my-job-search-as-a-data-warehouseTue, 6 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Raw JSON in, enforced contracts in the middle, an app on top. What building a personal warehouse for a job search taught me about source agnosticism and data ownership.