Articles by Gabriel Henrique on data engineering
I write about what I use at work: pipelines as products, Databricks, Airflow, Azure, SQL with AI and what I learned from each certification. All first person, from real projects.
Data engineering as a product: how I work with data at a large bank
Pipelines feeding a commercial CRM, a data catalog with 3,000+ monthly users and a SAS to Databricks migration. This is the method I apply to all of them.
Certification · Microsoft · Oct 2026DP-800: SQL AI Developer Associate with vectors, RAG and security
My most recent certification combines two things I use every day, SQL and governance, with the new side of relational databases: embeddings, vector search and RAG.
Certification · Microsoft · Sep 2026DP-750: how the Azure Databricks certification maps to my SAS migration
I passed DP-750 (Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Azure Databricks) in September 2026. Much of it is what I do every day migrating workloads to Databricks.
Certification · AstronomerAI Orchestration Fundamentals: how to put AI inside data pipelines
Language models have become one more step in the pipeline. This Astronomer certification covers what changes when that step is an AI: context, tools and human evaluation.
Certification · Microsoft · Mar 2026AZ-900 for data engineers: the cloud foundation under Databricks
AZ-900 is the entry-level Azure exam. For anyone running Databricks on Azure, it organizes the foundation under every workspace: subscriptions, identity, networking and cost.
Leadership · Aspire Institute · Dec 2025Aspire Leaders Program: what a leadership program taught a data engineer
I was selected for the Aspire Leaders Program, a global leadership initiative by the Aspire Institute. It is the only item on my list that is not about technology, and one of the ones that changed my work the most.
Certification · Astronomer · Nov 2025Airflow 3 DAG Authoring: how to write DAGs that survive production
Writing a DAG that runs is easy. Writing one that can run again, fail halfway and still end up correct is what this Astronomer certification tests.
Certification · Astronomer · Oct 2025Apache Airflow 3 Fundamentals: the concepts every data engineer needs
Airflow is the orchestrator I use the most. Astronomer's Fundamentals certification reviews the basics and the big changes in version 3.
Certification · CertiprofScrum Foundation for data teams: what works and what I adapt
My first certification outside the technical side was Scrum Foundation, from Certiprof. It is still useful because data projects have a specific problem: the work is hard to see.