Data is critical to every business success. It is even more relevant now with the emergence of AI and data science fields. Understanding and using Big Data platforms, architecture, cloud, data lakes and, data pipelines are essential to be successful data engineer.

About

VENKAT MAVRAM, M.S., is a technocrat with over 30 years of experience with enterprise software development that enables data-driven product decisions. He has held numerous leadership roles such as vice president of engineering and director of software development at well-known companies such as Ancestry, eBay, CallidusCloud, Intergraph, and Stanley Gibbons. Mavram has a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad, India and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His expertise includes Big Data, database, and cloud technologies in addition to full-stack web and mobile applications development. He formerly taught a Data Engineering and Big Data - Hadoop course at UCSC Extension.

Venkat Mavram's courses currently open for enrollment

Hands-On Data Engineering

DBDA.X424
$960
  • Live-Online Attend via Zoom at scheduled times.
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Tue, 01-13-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 01-13-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 01-20-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 01-20-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 01-27-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 01-27-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 02-03-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 02-03-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 02-10-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 02-10-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 02-17-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 02-17-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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Tue, 02-24-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 02-24-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 03-03-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 03-03-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 03-10-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 03-10-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 03-17-2026
6:30pm
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Tue, 03-17-2026
6:30pm
9:30pm
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This class is offered in an online synchronous format. Students are expected to log into this course via Canvas at the start time of scheduled meetings and participate via Zoom, for the duration of each scheduled class meeting.

To see all meeting dates, click “Full Schedule” below.

You will be granted access in Canvas to your course site and course materials approximately 24 hours prior to the published start date of the course.

Students are required to have computers with 64Bit processors and a minimum of 8GB of memory.

Recommended Texts:
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition, Tom White, O'Reilly Media, 2015, ISBN-10: 1-4919-0163-2, ISBN-13: 978-1-4919-0163-2 

Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis, Karau, Konwinski, Wendell and Zaharia, 2015, O'Reilly. ISBN-10: 1449358624. 

Programming Hive, Capriolo, Wampler & Rutherglen, 2012, O'Reilly. ISBN-10: 1449319335 

Data Algorithms: Recipes for Scaling Up with Hadoop and Spark, Mahmout Parsian, 2015, O'Reilly Media. Print ISBN:978-1-4919-0618-7