Builds the data highways, then spends half the week fixing potholes caused by everyone else driving like maniacs.
The mythical creature who turns spaghetti data into a structured buffet. Writes code that moves data from five SaaS tools, three databases, and a rogue Excel file named 'final_v4_2_REAL'. They quietly judge analysts for saying 'ETL' when they mean 'ELT'.
"What do you do for work?"
"I'm Data Engineer. Basically the plumber of the data world—underappreciated until things stop flowing."
