Cohort 01 · Hosted by Kshitij Gaikar
Ten Saturdays. One data platform.
A live course in designing, building, and operating data systems. Not a tour of tool logos. Lesson notes stay locked until I open them — the schedule is public so you know what you are joining.
Per student
₹1,00,000
100 of 100 seats left
- Lectures
- 10 live
- Length
- 7:00–9:00 PM IST
- Cap
- 100 students
- Format
- Online, Saturdays
Who it is for
- Analysts moving into engineering and tired of dashboard-only work.
- Engineers who inherited a warehouse and need a system, not another tutorial.
- People aiming at data roles who want grain, cost, and on-call — not trivia.
The ten lectures
Notes locked
- 01
Sat 5 Dec 2026 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
The map
What a data engineer actually owns, from source system to a trusted number.
- 02
Sat 12 Dec 2026 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Modeling for truth
Grain, keys, and when a lake, warehouse, or lakehouse is the honest choice.
- 03
Sat 19 Dec 2026 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
SQL that survives production
Windows, incremental logic, dedupe, and tests you can write in SQL.
- 04
Sat 2 Jan 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Batch pipelines
Orchestration, idempotency, partitions, and backfills that do not double-count.
- 05
Sat 9 Jan 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Streaming and change data
Logs, CDC, late data, and the exactly-once story you should not sell.
- 06
Sat 16 Jan 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Distributed compute
Partitions, skew, shuffle, and how to read a plan before the bill arrives.
- 07
Sat 23 Jan 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Transformations and contracts
Staging, marts, owners, and pull requests for data.
- 08
Sat 30 Jan 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Reliability
Freshness, lineage, incidents, and what is worth paging a human for.
- 09
Sat 6 Feb 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Choosing a platform
BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or Postgres — a decision memo, not a logo slide.
- 10
Sat 13 Feb 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
Capstone: a payments platform
Design the system in the room: sources, SLAs, marts, cost, and a 90-day plan.
Future session
AI for data engineers
Sat 27 Feb 2027 · 7:00–9:00 PM IST
A future session, not one of the ten. Text-to-SQL with evals, a semantic layer an agent cannot invent past, and where a model must not sit.
Outline locked with the rest of the studio. Join the list if you want a seat when it opens.
Waiting list
₹1,00,000 per student, capped at 100. This list holds your place. I confirm payment with you directly — there is no checkout on this page.