u/Boring_Lunch9992

Resume Review – Changed My Domain to Data Engineering | Need Guidance for Job Switch

Edit: idk why I am not able to upload the Resume in the body. So here's the resume link

Resume Link

Hey,

I recently changed my domain to Data Engineering through a healthcare project, and I’m planning to switch companies in the next few months.

My current experience mainly involves:

  • PySpark
  • Apache Airflow
  • ETL pipelines
  • Medallion Architecture
  • AWS S3 + Parquet
  • Data quality validation workflows
  • OCR + LLM-based extraction pipelines
  • RAG systems
  • Clinical/healthcare data engineering

The challenge is that I don’t yet have experience with many “modern DE stack” tools commonly seen in resumes like:

  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Kafka
  • Databricks
  • Redshift
  • Delta Lake

Most of my work has been focused on production healthcare data pipelines, validation workflows, orchestration, and clinically accurate data processing rather than massive-scale distributed systems.

I have around 2 years 8 months of total experience and want honest guidance on:

How competitive is my profile for Data Engineering roles?

Which projects should I build next to strengthen my resume for product-based companies?

What stack/tools should I prioritize learning first?

Is healthcare + AI/LLM data engineering considered valuable in the current market?

Should I position myself as a general Data Engineer or lean into AI/Healthcare Data Engineering specialization?

I’m planning to build projects around:

  • AWS
  • dbt
  • Snowflake
  • modern ETL/lakehouse architecture

Would really appreciate honest feedback and roadmap suggestions from experienced Data Engineers.

Thanks!

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u/Boring_Lunch9992 — 4 days ago