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Build the pipelines every analyst and AI model depends on.

Python plus SQL applied to moving, cleaning and scheduling data. The role that sits between the database course and the AI course — and pays more than both.

3 months
12 weekends, 24 live sessions
₹1,000
per month · ₹3,000 in total
Sat + Sun
keep your job or degree
Live
online — join from any city
Snow Stag Taught by working professionals, not full-time trainers

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Takes under a minute. No payment now.

  • ₹1,000 a month for 3 months. Pay month by month, not upfront.
  • Saturdays & Sundays only — keep your job or your degree.
  • Live classes online. Join from any city.
Why this one

Where this actually takes you

Companies have more data than people who can make it usable. Data engineering has a genuine shortage, and it rewards reliability over credentials.

Junior Data Engineer

Building and maintaining the pipelines.

Analytics Engineer

Turning raw data into models analysts can trust.

ETL Developer

A very common title in Indian services companies.

Before you apply: Comfortable with SQL and basic Python. Take Databases first if you are not.

The syllabus

Three months, foundation to advanced

12 weekends. 24 live sessions. Each month ends with something you built and can show — not a certificate of attendance.

1 Month 1 · Foundation

Moving and shaping data

Getting data out of one place, cleaning it, and putting it somewhere useful.

  • Python for data work: Pandas, files, APIs and messy real inputs
  • The ETL/ELT idea, and why the order matters
  • Data formats: CSV, JSON, Parquet — and why Parquet keeps winning
  • Cleaning, validating and handling data that is simply wrong
You finish withA repeatable script that pulls, cleans and loads a real public dataset.
2 Month 2 · Core

Pipelines and modelling

From a script that you run to a pipeline that runs itself.

  • Scheduling and orchestration with Airflow — DAGs, retries, dependencies
  • Warehouse modelling: facts, dimensions and star schemas
  • Transformations with dbt and testing your data
  • Incremental loads and not reprocessing everything every night
You finish withA scheduled multi-step pipeline with tests and failure alerts.
3 Month 3 · Advanced

Reliability and scale

Pipelines fail at 3am. This month is about what happens then.

  • Data quality monitoring and alerting
  • Idempotency, backfills and recovering from a bad run
  • Cost, partitioning and performance in a warehouse
  • Documentation and lineage so others can trust your data
You finish withCapstone: an end-to-end pipeline feeding a dashboard, with monitoring and a written runbook.
Who teaches you

Your mentor

Someone who does this work professionally, teaching the way it is actually done — not reading from a slide deck.

Backend, Data & AI Lead
Name announced on confirmation
11+ years — backend, data platforms & applied AI

Builds the systems behind the screen: APIs, databases, pipelines and the models on top of them. Teaches the whole stack as one connected thing.

PythonSQLAPIsPipelinesLLMs
Also teaches: Backend Development, API Development, Databases & SQL, AI & Applied Machine Learning — take both and you learn one connected system, not two disconnected subjects.
What you walk out with

Tools you'll actually have used

Not a reading list. Every one of these is used in a graded exercise during the course.

PythonSQLPandasAirflowdbt basicsParquet / CSVCloud storage

A portfolio, not a certificate

Three graded pieces of real work — one per month — plus the capstone. This is what gets you the interview.

A certificate from Snow Stag

Issued on completing the assessment and attending enough of the course to have earned it.

Interview preparation

Mock interviews, CV and LinkedIn review, and how to talk about work you have actually done.

The fee

Deliberately small, on purpose

Mentors volunteer their weekends. The fee covers what it costs to run the course — nothing more. It is charged monthly so nobody has to find a large sum upfront.

1

Apply

The form takes under a minute. No payment at this stage.

2

A short conversation

Fifteen minutes on the phone about what you want from this. We are checking commitment, not qualifications.

3

Confirm your seat

Pay the first month and you are in. Classes start on the cohort date.

Total cost
₹1,000 / month

₹3,000 across 3 months. No registration fee, no material charges, no exam fee.

24 live sessions with a working professional
All recordings, notes and exercises
Graded feedback on everything you build
Certificate and interview preparation

Money should not be the reason you don't apply. If even this is out of reach, say so on your application. We would rather find a way than lose someone who wants it.

Before you apply

The honest answers

No. This course starts at foundation level and assumes nothing. The one exception: Comfortable with SQL and basic Python. Take Databases first if you are not.

No. Classes are live and online, so you join from wherever you are. The whole point of these skills is that the work travels even when you do not.

That is exactly who this is built for. Classes are Saturdays & Sundays only, plus practice time in between. Nothing happens on a weekday.

Every session is recorded and yours to keep. But attendance is tracked — people who watch recordings instead of attending consistently do not finish, and we would rather tell you that now.

Yes. ₹3,000 in total across 3 months, paid monthly. No registration fee, no material charges, no exam fee. Note that fees are not refundable, so please be sure before you commit.

We do not guarantee jobs, and be careful of anyone who does. What you get is a portfolio of real work, a certificate, mock interviews and CV support. The hiring decision belongs to employers.

Dates are being confirmed now. Applying puts you on the list first — applicants hear the start date before it is announced publicly.

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